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Practical WebAssembly

You're reading from   Practical WebAssembly Explore the fundamentals of WebAssembly programming using Rust

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838828004
Length 232 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sendil Kumar Nellaiyapen Sendil Kumar Nellaiyapen
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to WebAssembly
2. Chapter 1: Understanding LLVM FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Understanding Emscripten 4. Chapter 3: Exploring WebAssembly Modules 5. Section 2: WebAssembly Tools
6. Chapter 4: Understanding WebAssembly Binary Toolkit 7. Chapter 5: Understanding Sections in WebAssembly Modules 8. Chapter 6: Installing and Using Binaryen 9. Section 3: Rust and WebAssembly
10. Chapter 7: Integrating Rust with WebAssembly 11. Chapter 8: Bundling WebAssembly Using wasm-pack 12. Chapter 9: Crossing the Boundary between Rust and WebAssembly 13. Chapter 10: Optimizing Rust and WebAssembly 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Calling closures via WebAssembly

The official Rust book defines closures as follows:

Closures are anonymous functions which you can save in a variable or can be passed as arguments to other functions. - The Rust Programming Language (Covers Rust 2018) by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols (https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch13-00-functional-features.html)

MDN defines a closure for JavaScript as follows:

A closure is the combination of a function and lexical environment within which that function was declared.- MDN Web Docs (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Closures#closure)

In general, closures are self-contained blocks of functionality that are tossed around and used in the code. They can capture and store references to the variables from the context in which they are defined.

Closures and functions are similar except for a subtle difference. Closures will capture the state when it is first created. Then, whenever a closure is called, it closes over...

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