Wasmer is taking WebAssembly beyond the browser (Interview)

We’re talking with Syrus Akbary about WebAssembly and Wasmer — a standalone just in time WebAssembly runtime aiming to be fully compatible with Emscripten, Rust, and Go. We talked about taking WebAssembly beyond the browser, universal binaries, what’s an ABI?, running WebAssembly from any language, and what a world might look like with platform independent universal binaries powered by WebAssembly.

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Featuring:

• Syrus Akbary – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Wasmer — Universal binaries powered by WebAssembly (Wasm)
• Stop limiting your open source library’s potential
• Running WebAssembly from any language
• Running WebAssembly 100x faster 🔥
• Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web
• WASI - The WebAssembly System Interface
• wasmerio/wasmer
• appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs

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