Update WebAssembly Projects

[logankilpatrick]

Hey @Keno we need to get the compiler projects here: https://julialang.org/jsoc/gsoc/wasm/ updated for GSoC 2021 asap.

There are new requirements for the projects found here: https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/defining-a-project-ideas-list including adding an (easy, medium, hard) rating for each project. Please read through that link and updated the projects as needed.

If you are no long able to mentor the project or the project has been completed, please open a PR to remove it. Thank you!

[aviks]

@tshort, @vchuravy @fonsp may be interested

[fonsp]

Awesome that this is a GSoC project! We at Pluto are definitely SUPER interested, and Pluto+wasm could also contribute back to Julia's popularity:

• people can easily make online articles/webapps running on WASM
• we can host an online Julia IDE similar in spirit to observablehq.com, but with a real scientific language instead of JS

(@keno I am about halfway done with writing a minimal Pluto+wasm demo, I'll keep working on it soon!)

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We would be happy to co-mentor for:

• integration of JS objects
• DOM integration
• Web-integration packages
• (Pluto) notebook integration (note that the Iodide project has been discontinued as of Sept 2020)
• (possibly others)

[AriMKatz]

This is also connected to @jpsamaroo 's work on static compilation using small or no runtime and GPUCompiler. A general WASM backend for dev and an option to spit out static WASM for deployment.

Details here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rLpZf-HK6b9uYPDT_piUza4LUhtIrLbUftGa_YaXGKQ/edit?usp=sharing

(Which would make a good GSOC as well. Maybe we can have both work together)

@fonsp check out the above doc. Very exciting stuff

[logankilpatrick]

@Keno the proposal and such were not updated so the project has been de-referenced from the project list but feel free to update and add it back in.