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AutoCAD & WebAssembly: Moving a 30 Year Code Base to the Web
AutoCAD is a computer-aided design desktop software application that was first released in 1982. With the advent of the internet age, there comes a need to extend AutoCAD's capabilities to the browser. However, the massive, complex, and constantly changing code base makes it impractical to...
Kevin Cheung
Software Architect @autodesk
Interviews
Kevin Cheung
Software Architect @autodesk
AutoCAD & WebAssembly: Moving a 30 Year Code Base to the Web
Your talk is about porting AutoCAD on the desktop to a browser with WebAssembly. How do you plan to go about the talk?
I plan to start my talk with how we arrived at our current technology stack (which is Emscripten and WebAssembly Binaryen) by talking about our journey from trying flash, JavaScript, asm.js, and, finally, getting to WebAssembly. After that, I would like to highlight some of the peculiarities of the large and constantly changing...
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