Newsletter 010: wasm support and amethyst (#153)

* Section about adding WASM support to a native app.

* Adds Amethyst updates.

Author: azriel91

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@@ -288,6 +288,23 @@ You can follow along for updates and release progress [here][updates].
 
 [updates]: https://twitter.com/oliviff/status/1264301381042782209
 
+### Adding WASM Support to a Native App
+
+![WASM Networking](networking_wasm_recv.png)
+
+Porting an existing native application to run in the browser as a [WASM]
+application comes with many challenges, including adapting to the browser's
+control flow, threading model, and security restrictions.
+
+This month [Azriel] presented the challenges of adding WASM support to the
+Amethyst game engine. The recording is on [youtube][wasm_yt] and the
+presentation material is available [online][wasm_it].
+
+[wasm_yt]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YQGwb4_AvA
+[wasm_it]: https://azriel.im/wasm_it/
+[Azriel]: https://github.com/azriel91/
+[WASM]: https://webassembly.org/
+
 ## Library & Tooling Updates
 
 ### NodeFX
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 [rusty editor]: https://github.com/mrDIMAS/rusty-editor
 
+### [Amethyst][amethyst]
+
+[![Amethyst logo](amethyst-logo.png)][amethyst]
+
+- [`rlua`] is now part of the Amethyst organization.
+
+    `rlua` is a library that provides high level bindings between Rust and
+    [Lua]. Through [discussion][rlua_discussion], a number of people will be
+    sharing maintenance of the library.
+
+- [`legion-task`]: A multi-tasking library for the [Legion] ECS.
+
+    This library by [bonsairobo] provides multi-tasking support on the Legion
+    ECS, allowing tasks to be executed in dependency graph order. Check out the announcement post in the [forum][legion_task_forum].
+
+    This is a port of the [`specs-task`] library, which provides the same
+    functionality for [SPECS].
+
+[`legion-task`]: https://github.com/bonsairobo/legion-task
+[`rlua`]: https://github.com/amethyst/rlua
+[`specs-task`]: https://github.com/bonsairobo/specs-task
+[amethyst]: https://amethyst.rs
+[bonsairobo]: https://github.com/bonsairobo
+[Legion]: https://github.com/TomGillen/legion
+[legion_task_forum]: https://community.amethyst.rs/t/announcing-a-new-multi-tasking-library-for-legion-ecs/1495
+[Lua]: https://www.lua.org/
+[rlua_discussion]: https://github.com/amethyst/rlua/issues/174
+[SPECS]: https://github.com/amethyst/specs
+
 ## Popular Workgroup Issues in Github
 
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