Simulating Sand: Building Interactivity With WebAssembly by Max Bittker | JSConf EU 2019

“Falling sand games” were a beloved childhood curiosity, but when I set out to write my own in Javascript, performance got in the way of the scale and granularity I wanted.
Could WebAssembly be the tool to build the sand simulation of my dreams, or is it still just for blog posts?
I’ll share with you the history and beauty of falling sand games, what I learned building mine to leverage the power of modern browsers, and show you how WebAssembly can cooperate productively with the JS ecosystem to enable awesome web experiences.
Detailed blog post: maxbittker.com/making-sandspiel
2019.jsconf.eu/max-bittker/si...

[@killaship]

I love sandspiel, and coding, so this talk was very interesting. PS: i am typing this on a nintendo 3ds

[@qazyhn94]

that was the best js conf ever! every talk is soo great

[@edwinlundmark]

My personal favourite falling sand game is the powder toy, it's like powder game but with I believe 180+ elements. People have made computers and stuff!

[@qewolf]

Very interesting and inspiring, thank you!

[@wacka.]

Nice, I made a sand game for Windows phone back in the day, it was called sandicle, I keep thinking of making another one for Android. I got some ideas...

[@Aaron-fh2zz]

Great!!

[@jntaca]

Love to play Sandspiel

[@_lapys]

Definitely deserves more views.

[@acan1192]

Very interesting talk! Awesome!

[@parmgill99]

Nice

[@StephenMoreira]

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[@giancarloandrebravoabanto7091]

very interesting. but l prefer pure Javascript