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This project is available as a student work experience opportunity with HPCC Systems. Curious about other projects we are offering? Take a look at our Ideas List.

Student work experience opportunities also exist for students who want to suggest their own project idea. Project suggestions must be relevant to HPCC Systems and of benefit to our open source community. 

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Project Description

WebAssembly or wasm is a low-level binary format for the web that is compiled from other languages to offer maximized performance and augments JavaScript. The HPCC Systems platform currently supports embedding wasm via a plugin. 

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  • A functional wit-bindgen for ECL. 
  • A complete GitHub project with code and documentation .
  • A blog, a recorded presentation, and a poster artifact about your project (see examples from previous years here).
Mentor

Gordon Smith
Gordon.Smith@lexisnexisrisk.com

Backup Mentor: 

TBD

Skills needed
  • Good programming background.
  • Ability to code in C++.
  • Ability to build and test the HPCC system (guidance will be provided).
  • Knowledge of wasm sufficient to write and run test cases.
  • Knowledge of ECL sufficient to re-use existing code (see resources below to become familiar with the ECL  language).
  • Ability to write test code.
Important resources