WebAssembly Games?

[Azareal]

I've been seen some pretty cool tech demos for WebAssembly where they have little games running in the browser, so I've been thinking of making tossing up some simple programs of my own.

Maybe, I could try hacking together one of those classic RPGs from the good old days? Nothing amazing, but it could be a nice way to experiment with the new platform.
If you don't know what WebAssembly is, it's basically an assembly language for the web which is potentially more optimisable than JavaScript and runs in the browser.

Quite a few languages already have experimental ways to compile to WebAssembly like C#, Go, Rust, C++, etc. There are even rumours that Python might be next up.
I'm slightly sceptical about how useful it will really be with web development, at-least due to the huge file sizes it has now, but for games, it might be very interesting.

 

[Deleted member 44219]

WebAssembly sounds like something I wouldn't use. Assembly is(From my perspective) not a beginner-friendly language. Especially for the web.

If you want to make a web game then use JavaScript to make a web game. Don't use Flash either because it's about to be killed off.

 

[Azareal]

WebAssembly sounds like something I wouldn't use. Assembly is(From my perspective) not a beginner-friendly language. Especially for the web.

If you want to make a web game then use JavaScript to make a web game. Don't use Flash either because it's about to be killed off.

Generally speaking, WebAssembly is something you compile to rather than something that is used as a language in it's own right, although there's nothing stopping someone from doing that.

This is the same as X86 Assembly and it's ilk in a way, you write a program in something higher level like C++ or Go or whatever else and it's compiled to a bunch of assembly, which is then assembled and the CPU goes off an executes.

And it's unknown yet as to whether it will really catch on, but it's entirely possible for Flash to compiled to WebAssembly.

Also, the name Flash kinda reminds me of this, lol:

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