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In just four short years, WebAssembly has broken free of its origins as a useful browser-based technology and now powers some of the world’s most complex distributed applications, from streaming platforms like Disney+ to e-commerce powerhouse Shopify. WebAssembly’s journey beyond the browser WebAssembly, or WASM for short, was developed by the World Wide Web Consortium

WASM initially promised performance gains and greater portability for web applications, but now is making an impact across a growing number of environments.

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Microsoft continues to evolve Azure’s container orchestration platform, adding proxy and WebAssembly support.

by Oscar Spencer recently presented Grain, a new strongly-typed, high-level language that compiles to WebAssembly. Grain includes functional programming features (e.g., type inference, pattern matching, closures) while allowing mutable variables. Grain also has a standard library with composite data structures (Option, Stack, Result) and system calls (e.g., I/O, process handling). In a talk at the WebAssembly Summit 2021, Spencer went through the main characteristics of Grain, a programming lan...

Fastly expands WebAssembly investment in support of a secure-by-default software ecosystem 3 hours ago ANTARA/Business Wire As the burgeoning WebAssembly ecosystem continues to gain momentum, Fastly increases its open source contributions to the secure-by-default tool of choice for developers. San Francisco--(Antara/Business Wire)- Fastly, Inc., a global edge cloud platform provider, has expanded its investments in the WebAssembly ecosystem, reinforcing its belief that this emerging technology...

iTWire Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:02 The Bytecode Alliance calls for new members in mission to build safer software foundations for the internet Shares Fastly CTO Tyler McMullen Company News: The Bytecode Alliance, a community dedicated to creating new software foundations, building on standards such as WebAssembly and WebAssembly System Interface (WASI), today announced incorporation as a 501(c)(6) nonprofit organisation. Incorporated by Fastly, Intel, Mozilla and Microsoft, ...

WebAssembly organisation Bytecode Alliance welcomes Microsoft, Google and others Apr 28, 2021 14:16 EDT with 7 comments The Bytecode Alliance, an organisation focused on WebAssembly, has announced its incorporation as a 501(c)(6) non-profit organisation. Additionally, more companies including Microsoft, Arm, DFINITY Foundation, Embark Studios, Google, Shopify, and the University of California at San Diego have joined Fastly, Intel, and Mozilla to run th...

Mozilla Chairwoman Mitchell Baker speaks at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on May 16, 2018 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mozilla is among the companies leading the charge in an effort to promote WebAssembly and the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) as emerging standards that can fix some of the inherent weaknesses in the way software gets developed. (Photo by Paul Marotta/Getty Images for MIT Solve) The Bytecode Alliance on Wednesday announced that it formed a non-profit organization to...

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