More on AutoCAD Web at Google I/O

After the previous day’s excitement of seeing AutoCAD Web on mainstage at the Google I/O developer keynote, on Wednesday our very own Marcus O’Brien, Senior Product Line Manager in the AutoCAD team, took to the stage during another session at Google I/O – entitled “Building the Future Web with WebAssembly” – to talk a bit more about AutoCAD’s history and the path that led to this latest incarnation of AutoCAD Web.

Marcus onstage at Google IO

Here’s a video of the session. It’s probably worth watching more of this one, but for your convenience I’ve set the below video to start with the AutoCAD segment.

 

 

This is, once again, great recognition of the amazing feat the Fabric team has pulled off over the last few years. Taking a multi-million-line, desktop-centric codebase built and refined over 35 years and getting it to work in a browser is simply incredible. And it wasn’t an easy process: it took a lot of hard work and dedication to make this happen.

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