The WASI Revolution: Luke Wagner on WebAssembly's Past, Present, and Future - WasmAssembly

In this episode, Thomas Steiner interviews Luke Wagner, who works at Fastly. You'll hear them chat about Luke's time at Mozilla, how he remembers the Wasm launch, the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) and the component model, his thoughts on where WebAssembly's future lies, and much more.

Resources: Luke Wagner's Wasm announcement blog post for Mozilla → https://goo.gle/4bdxyT4 The Wasm polyfill prototype → https://goo.gle/4bdiPHF The PLDI 2017 paper → https://goo.gle/4cvJpg7 A WebAssembly milestone → https://goo.gle/4bcK455 V8's Wasm announcement → https://goo.gle/3VHIanw Edge's Wasm announcement → https://goo.gle/4cbbEAX The WebAssembly browser preview → https://goo.gle/4c912mk The magic number and the version field → https://goo.gle/45D4hjj The WebAssembly post-MVP future blog pos → https://goo.gle/45zcapQ WebAssembly performance patterns →https://goo.gle/4ce8qwE API Concerns with Structured Clone for Wasm Modules → https://goo.gle/3XCXZOH Formal description of serializing and deserializing a Module → https://goo.gle/4bdNowH Don't allow IndexedDB serialization of WebAssembly.Module → https://goo.gle/4bj8OZo Normative: Support [Serializable] for WebAssembly.Module → https://goo.gle/3z9Wjlv Cache support → https://goo.gle/3zd7pX7 WebAssembly developers → https://goo.gle/4cd9v7Q WebAssembly — Caching to HTML5 IndexedDB → https://goo.gle/4c9KlqB The Lucet → https://goo.gle/4evkwTF The Lucet and Wasmtime teams join forces → https://goo.gle/45IbsH1 Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla → https://goo.gle/3VD6Yg6 What is WebAssembly? → https://goo.gle/3xtnGGK Lucet Takes WebAssembly Beyond the Browser → https://goo.gle/4b9akxi Wasmtime—A fast and secure runtime for WebAssembly → https://goo.gle/3xiVpTr How Lucet and Wasmtime make a stronger compiler, together → https://goo.gle/3RCtULo WASI 0.2: Unlocking WebAssembly's Promise Outside the Browser → https://goo.gle/4eMwyID WASI 0.2 Launched → https://goo.gle/3z8qA4a WebAssembly System Interface → https://goo.gle/4cxRGjA WASI proposals → https://goo.gle/3VD7xXg WASI HTTP → https://goo.gle/3VAiJ75 The wit format → https://goo.gle/3VxVHO9 What color is your function? → https://goo.gle/3KSVG2n A stream of consciousness on the future of async in the Component Model → https://goo.gle/3XxJdIY Revolutions podcast → https://goo.gle/3xgPdve Luke Wagner on GitHub → https://goo.gle/3VyqgmP Luke Wagner on X → https://goo.gle/3KWz40U

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Speaker: Thomas Steiner