Rust Programming Language Rust and WebAssembly Working Group, 9 Aug 2018

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The Rust WebAssembly Working Group meeting from 9 August 2018.

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Hello. Welcome to another rust and webassembly working, a group meeting.

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So diving right into the schedule, are the agenda. The RFC triage should have a link there, there's a new RFC on on adding traits with super traits to represent inheritance in JavaScript, so that you can call a base classes methods without doing an explicit like up casting like into the up cast and I'm going to add that to the agenda in one second,.

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And it goes so please if you're interested in that take a read, leave a comment and, let's get into the rest, 2018 triage I'm, specifically going to focus on the blocking release candidate, stuff right now,.

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And let's sort by newest see if there's anything good here so there's.

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There's this new issue, which is about adding the previous RFC, that we accepted for allowing like up casting and various pens like dynamic, casting.

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To 2000 bündchen, so this is about adding all of those attributes to the JSC scrape, and it's like a big checklist issue that you know should be fairly easily parallelizable between multiple contributors.

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And yeah there's a few new things: they're all pretty small, as imagine things investigate why we aren't creating bindings or create element, exposing a getter for the global window, not too worried about that all right. So, let's dive into status updates or the goals.

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So, first for for web sis, I've been working on overhauling the documentation.

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It's probably 75% of the way there. So if you're interested in that, please take a look at the docs and give feedback and hopefully they're easier to like hopefully they're. The goals are to make it like more complete and like easier to understand like how. How does this rust being translating into JavaScript and vice versa? And you know how do I do constructors rusyns methods?

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And so, if you want to read about that, that's mostly in the plasma engine guide.

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Which I just linked in there? The other thing is I'm hoping to get the wasm engine features great published, maybe make it up this week, because it's already Thursday, but probably next week, which was one of our goals for release candidates.

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And then there's been just general more progress on.

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And well by DL friends,.

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Wasm pack I.

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Don't have any updates I, don't think, there's been a ton of activity in this area, but unfortunately Ashley can't make it to this meeting and she would be able to point out all the things that I'm not aware of so yeah.

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Spend you want to talk about bundler, step.

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So I'm character, working on the new play game, actually, a neighbor neighbor, the watch mode.

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We never this first PR in the company, but actually the watch that doesn't doesn't work.

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Yeah I just need to write that bring in this tie then watch the fight myself. That's.

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Good, so is there a goal: gonna be to watch just every dot, RS file and your create yes yeah.

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It might be worth looking at cargoes like build plan, because so there's certain various ways that, like certain RS files, could or could not be part of the compilation, I'm kind of like if death and see where, like some module, is only used if you're compiling for Windows and another module is only used if you're, compiling for UNIX and so cargo actually has this mode, where you can say, instead of actually building the crate. Tell me all of the things that you would do.

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If you were going to build the crate yeah, then that should list out all the rs files that you would be interested in watching.

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Interesting yeah, it's there. You know the name of the card.

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I'll look into it, I, don't know off the top of my head. If Alex was here, or it probably actually was here, either of them would know, but I'm, not sure I'm.

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What I imagine is like you know, in order to get like something, that's working for the like 95 percent use case just watching. Every RS file is fine and then like as a next step after that would be like using the car go build plan, yeah.

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Do you have any other updates, no.

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That's that's it I'm going to make a P awesome cool.

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Okay, after that is documentation, and unfortunately, Michael couldn't be here either today, so I, don't think a ton of stuff has happened other than the game of life. Tutorial is the main tutorial now I, don't know if that happened in this week or last week, but the the last impact tutorial has moved into as in pack and the game of life. Tutorial is the main tutorial for the book and we're going to next integrate wesen pack, like we've been talking about the other thing, was I landed a couple: poor requests, I added crates.

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You should know section.

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And then also I overhauled the tools section into tools you should know, and so these are now before the tools section was kind of like a hodgepodge of like random tools, a lot of which were like honestly like abandoned projects that people used to like start learning a little bit about lazon, and then you know they learned a little bit about azzam and then they never continued, maintaining or developing the tool or whatever, and and so now it's it's a little bit more curated and generally these things should have you know, production ready.

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You know more polished, complete maintained tools, yeah, maybe a little bit more opinionated. So also, please read that stuff. If you're interested I will link it. One second.

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So here is crates, you should know and.

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Here is the new tools you should know section.

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Alright and I think that's everything for the book website.

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Syndulla was not here, but there has not been any progress since last week. I, don't think, there's a kind of a rough first draft of content and then we're planning to merge that soon and improve entry.

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And yeah so I don't know if people saw, but there was this. This Twitter thread that just went around it was ended up LinkedIn Rustin webassembly news issue. We are apparently some fortune 500 company which then, which company is not named, they started using Reston webassembly on client machines. Instead of doing like a bunch of work that they're previously doing on AWS and I. Guess, like one person spent two weeks doing this and then saved the company like some number, some millions of dollars, that's going to like continue saving millions of dollars every year.

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So that's pretty cool I'd like to kind of reach out to them and talk to them and see. If we can, you know get them to put a quote or something for our website or, like you know, write a white paper or something like that to kind of like share their story and something a little bit more professional than its worded grid.

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Debugging same not much going on there, not much really needed and templates so there spend. You landed that PR to update the rust loader bins with the great ingest in two separate directories.

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Which is awesome and then syndulla added the ability to NPM, init rust, web pack and then like name of project, so you don't have to like make a directory called directory into it and then do NPM in it. You could just do that all at once.

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There's I know: there's been a little bit of activity on the last impact template as well, but I'm not super up-to-date on that. I need to read a little bit more about that. So I, don't really have anything to add here and that's everything do either of you have any other.

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The things you'd like to talk about for the agenda and the agenda items.

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Nope, okay! Well, in that case, pretty short meeting since we had this last minute, meeting room change and seems like a lot of people weren't able to make it anyway. So that's the whole thing. Thank you both for coming and have a wonderful day.