WebAssembly: Saving the Early Internet – Ep 13 – WebAssembly Unleashed

Welcome to WebAssembly Unleashed with hosts Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matt Yacobucci. Join us as we dive into the latest happenings in the Wasm community. Fresh from WasmCon, the team delves into the evolving WebAssembly standards, including the upcoming WASI Preview 3 featuring async and streams. Special guest Alessandro Pignotti, CTO of Leaning Technologies, shares his journey in reviving Adobe Flash content with LightSpark and introduces WebVM, a groundbreaking project to run legacy applications in the browser. Discover how WebAssembly is preserving early web content and the immense potential it holds for both client-side and enterprise applications. Tune in for an engaging discussion on the past, present, and future with WebAssembly! Chapters: 00:00 Introduction to WebAssembly Unleashed 00:47 Recap of WasmCon Highlights 01:38 WASI Preview 3 Excitement 02:50 Exploring WebAssembly on the Client Side 03:34 The Rise and Fall of Early Web Technologies 07:04 Reviving Legacy Web Content with WebAssembly 11:45 Challenges and Innovations in WebAssembly 22:24 Legacy Code and WebAssembly 23:17 Introduction to Cheerp and CheerpJ 25:35 Introducing CheerpX 26:16 The Future of WebAssembly and Gaming 28:48 The Importance of Internet Archive 30:23 WebAssembly Specification and Performance 33:28 WebVM: From Experiment to Reality 38:47 WebVM Hackathon and Community Engagement For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites: Blogs - https://www.f5.com/company/octo Reports - https://www.f5.com/services/resources/reports Meet Your Hosts: Joel Moses | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelmoses/ | https://community.f5.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/398372 Oscar Spencer | https://twitter.com/oscar_spen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/ Matthew Yacobucci | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/ Follow and connect with our guest: Alessandro Pignotti | https://x.com/alexpignotti Leaning Technologies | https://discord.leaningtech.com WebVM | https://webvm.io/