WebAssembly
Cosmonic touts life-cycle management in WebAssembly PaaS
The platform was built on wasmCloud for multifaceted app deployment for the cloud, browser, edge, and other platforms.
How WebAssembly will transform edge computing
By enabling cloud-native back ends to run on operational edges, Wasm allows us to deploy business logic closer to users or data, even to places Kubernetes and containers can’t go.
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Wasm: 5 things developers should be tracking
We know Wasm works well in the browser. Now it’s time to get excited about the possibilities for Wasm on the server side.
WASIX undermines WebAssembly System Interface spec, Bytecode Alliance says
Wasmer says the goal of WASIX is to allow any kind of program to run on top of WebAssembly, and this requires system call extensions that fill gaps in WASI. Bytecode Alliance says WASIX is non-standard.
Wasmer melds WebAssembly, Posix with WASIX spec
The superset of WASI can be used for apps and runtimes, offering a high-performance JavaScript alternative that runs in browsers and servers.
Microsoft .NET 8 boosts Blazor, WebAssembly
Microsoft works to improve web app performance with Blazor server-side rendering and streaming rendering, Blazor WebAssembly runtime improvements.
Google’s Dart 3 and Flutter 3.10 bring big changes
Dart 3 introduces sound null safety, major new language features, and a Wasm preview, while Flutter 3.10 fleshes out the Material 3 widget toolkit and support for macOS and iOS targets.
Solving the SBOM crisis with WebAssembly components
The Wasm component model addresses supply chain vulnerabilities by allowing the most up-to-date versions of imported libraries to be attached at runtime—enabling platforms to automate common application maintenance.
Cosmonic WebAssembly PaaS connects with Kubernetes
Cosmonic has launched an open beta of its platform as a service for WebAssembly developers and added Kubernetes integration to the platform.
Wasmer’s WCGI pairs WebAssembly and CGI
WCGI allows existing CGI applications to be reused by compiling them to WebAssembly, taking advantage of ultra-small packages and sandboxed execution, Wasmer says.
Spin 1.0 aims to simplify WebAssembly microservices
Fermyon Technologies’ Spin, an open source framework for building event-driven microservice applications with WebAssembly, is now available in a stable release.
Building the component model for Wasm
The WebAssembly component model lays the groundwork for a language-agnostic component system, one that allows any Wasm application to use components written in any programming language.
Google V8 API bridges WebAssembly and asynchronous web
The WebAssembly JavaScript Promise Integration API suspends a Wasm application when it issues a synchronous API call and resumes it when the asynchronous I/O operation is completed.
SpiderLightning: Making WebAssembly cloud applications portable
Inside one of the technologies that powers Azure Kubernetes Service’s WebAssembly support, and promises to make applications portable across clouds and other hosts.
Azure Kubernetes doubles down on WebAssembly
WebAssembly is ideal for cloud-native apps. A shift from Krustlets to runwasi should simplify managing Wasm nodes in Azure Kubernetes Service.
Wasmer 3.0 revamps API, memory management
Server-side WebAssembly runtime also simplifies the way engines work, enables running WAPM packages from the CLI, and supports creating native executables for any platform.
WebAssembly comes to Apache web server
VMware Labs’ mod_wasm is an extension module for the Apache HTTP Server that serves WebAssembly binaries as endpoints.
