My exploration of WASM/WASI
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Assembler was developed in 1947, wow! It makes 78 years of computing development in which we saw higher level programming languages, virtual machine programming languages (write once run everywhere), virtual machines, cloud and so on. A lot of knowledge got accumulated over the time which you can see in size of artifacts deployed to cloud.
Over the years we have seen several attempts reach for the roots. Similarly WebAssembly is instruction format for virtual machine designed to be portable compilation target for any language willing. It is fast as nearly native speed, secure and sandboxed and language agnostic. Originally wrote for the browsers it is beginning to get traction as microservice runtime, which btw is topic of this post.