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@ -6,19 +6,20 @@ wasm: wasm-life-1/game.wat
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Lately in doing research on WebAssembly I've been looking around for examples
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of things implemented in it, and I've come across several blog posts based on
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the fantastic *Rust And WebAssembly* tutorial for
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[Conway's Game of Life](https://rustwasm.github.io/docs/book/game-of-life/introduction.html).
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of things implemented in it. In this search I've come across several blog
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posts that claim to be Conway's Game of Life in WebAssembly, but upon opening them,
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I find they are actually just Rust!
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And I mean no shade towards the folks who wrote those, but I feel it's mildly
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disingenuous to say that those are "Conway's Game of Life in WebAssembly" when
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the actual game code was written entirely in Rust. In those sorts of projects
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WebAssembly is really no more than a compilation target, not actually the
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language used!
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Now I mean no shade towards Rust or those posts (and if that's what you're
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curious about doing, I recommend the fantastic [Conway's Game of Life](https://rustwasm.github.io/docs/book/game-of-life/introduction.html)
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guide from *Rust and WebAssembly*) but around here I take pride in being
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accurate to the point of pedantry. Rust is very much not WebAssembly, and
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despite how much we front-end developers may get them conflated in our heads,
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this feels like a distinction worth making!
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So of course I knew what I had to do . . .
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Welcome to Conway's Game of Life, *actually implemented* in WebAssembly:
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Welcome to Conway's Game of Life, ***actually implemented in WebAssembly:***
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<noscript>[If you enable Javascript, you'll see a game board here]</noscript>
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