Scheme in Scheme on Wasm in the browser -- Spritely Institute
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  • davelAEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Awesome! I’ve been pretty psyched about WASM/WASI ever since this tweet, almost 5 years ago: https://nitter.net/solomonstre/status/1111004913222324225

    If WASM+WASI existed in 2008, we wouldn’t have needed to created Docker. That’s how important it is. Webassembly on the server is the future of computing. A standardized system interface was the missing link. Let’s hope WASI is up to the task!

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPMEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      Lots of exciting possibilities here. Having standard vm that’s available universally would definitely go a long way. I recall watching a talk a while back about running a js vm in a ring 0, and how you could get performance comparable to native code that way. The logic was that since it’s already a vm with managed memory, it’s safe to run in privileged mode.