While at the time of writing I’m not yet on the official speaker list, I’m happy to say that I will be presenting a session at the Autodesk DevCon that’s being held in Amsterdam from May 20th-21st, 2025. I’ll also be attending the Dynamo Hackathon on May 19th as a warm-up.
My session is entitled “Supercharge your browser-based APS applications with WebAssembly” and will explore how you can take C++ libraries and build them into WebAssembly modules to bring impressive capabilities to your browser-based Autodesk Platform Services applications.
Over the last few years I’ve spent quite a bit of time using Emscripten to take advanced C++ developed by Autodesk Research - such as VASA and SyDEVS - and integrate them into applications based on the APS Viewer, Tandem or Forma. It’s an important - and valuable - mechanism, and I’m looking forward to sharing what I’ve learned about what’s involved.
Here’s a teaser image of a prototype I’ve been working on that makes heavy use of WASM inside Forma. I’ll show more of this during the class.
I love attending our DevCon events - I hope to see you there. If you haven’t already registered, please do so!
