THE VIDEO SHELF · webassembly interpreters
A Talk Near the Future of Python (a.k.a., Dave live-codes a WebAssembly Interpreter)
David Beazley's PyCon India closing keynote, in which he live-codes a stack machine and grows it into an interpreter that runs WebAssembly, then uses it to play a Rust-written game. It requires no prior WebAssembly knowledge.
Why HN readers recommended it
Regarded as a brilliant live-coding talk that teaches WASM and interpreter writing, with several calling it among the best conference talks they have seen.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- David Beazley
- Topic
- webassembly interpreters
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 7
- HN mentions in dataset
- 9
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I recommand David Beazley's talk from a recent PyCon India on a similar subject : [VIDEO] Mostly live coded, it really is pretty amazing but also quite insightful.
kiriliponi on Hacker News · 2019-10
In Let's Write an LLVM Specializer for Python (2015)Ok, it wasnt technically this year but I have to share this one just incase anyone missed it, because it's quite possible the best conference talk I've ever seen. [VIDEO]
VBprogrammer on Hacker News · 2020-12
In Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?I found this video [VIDEO] "A Talk Near the Future of Python (a.k.a., Dave live-codes a WebAssembly Interpreter)" to be a brilliant introduction to WASM as well as writing interpreters in general. I'm a relative novice in the subject and it was pitched right at …
milliams on Hacker News · 2021-07
In WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to DooM
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