New Wasm Platform And Standard WASIX??

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[@farqueueman]

I'm waiting for them to announce a new JS framework written in WASIX... cause why not. Bwazingwy fwast ♥

[@ThePrimeTimeagen]

uwu

[@KaidenBird]

@@ThePrimeTimeagen 📸📸📸📸📸

[@zahawolfe]

WASM on the browser and server is very very exciting. It really feels like it's fulfilling on the dream of the JVM. Additionally, it's very cool and exciting to be able to write libraries in one language, and have them easily callable in other languages through the WASM interface is amazing. I hope for a future where each language can get the benefits of other languages and we don't have to rewrite libraries in every new language. It would also mean that when you write a new language, you automatically get all the libraries that already exist for wasm.

[@stanstrum]

I totally agree. It seems to me they’re finally completing what JavaApplets set out to accomplish. I remember playing Minecraft on Internet Explorer and how simply it worked, but I imagine it was hell to implement. This seems like such an improvement over that from start to finish.

[@w1keee]

my hope is in the actually portable executable project, they've already figured out how to run the same file on win, mac, linux, the bsds and bios, so i hope that it's possible to have it run in wasm as well

[@anyadatzaklatszjutub]

Wooow, I didn’t even think about that, but you are absolutely right! That would be so cool… plus on a personal note, being a dirty webdev, this is the first thing that let’s me truly branch out, without having to start from scratch… you know what I mean?

[@VACatholic]

NestedVM provides binary translation for Java Bytecode. This is done by having GCC compile to a MIPS binary which is then translated to a Java class file. Hence any application written in C, C++, Fortran, or any other language supported by GCC can be run in 100% pure Java with no source changes.

[@Dylan-jp4vw]

Damn I needed this 2 years ago

[@anlumo1]

I'm also very excited about the possibilities of wasm, so much so that I'm currently trying to get a project funded that uses wasmer at its core, and all business logic is planned to be written in wasm. One big aspect of this is that I then can write modules in Rust and integrate them easily without forcing everybody else to also use Rust. Use whatever you want, as long as it compiles to wasm.

[@soumen_pradhan]

Will it be running in containers ?

[@anlumo1]

@@soumen_pradhan It's a desktop and web application, so no Docker or something like that. The modules themselves are naturally sandboxed, so I don't need anything in addition to wasmer.

[@soumen_pradhan]

@@anlumo1 Ah, I see. Hope this trend happens and we get less electron apps.

[@NateLevin]

I don't know about Wasmer... shady CEO, poor internal management, a myriad of other problems

[@bdafeesh]

Wasix is the answer we've all needed. File directories? Sockets?!? Count me in, but hopefully security will still be a high priority (specifically with sockets).

[@DMWatchesYoutube]

its a bilingual jvm, its a good idea because you can write your code in so many languages that compile to wasm now and then just have it run in a nice sandbox

[@NathanHedglin]

Exactly.

[@KadenCartwright]

Just recently had a deployment call where we had to stay up til 1:30 because of erratic issues with our deployment. We switched hosted zones, migrating our domain along with all compute from one AWS account to another, and the devOps guy didn’t think to set the TTL on the name servers to something less than the original 48 hours. Some users were directed to the old instances of everything for the next 48 hours and our business units were absolutely losing their minds because they didn’t understand what was happening

[@calder-ty]

Who needs Solar Flares to flip bits randomly, when DNS will get you every-time for free.

[@Gahlfe123]

i thikk this is the future steve jobs thought of when he thought apps would be made on the web browser before the app store was a thought. a platform for cross platform applications that run almost natively... i love it

[@NathanHedglin]

😂nah Apple hates the web. They don't get 30% of website revenue

[@BlurryBit]

Say it like “Woah Sex” 😂

[@sebsplatter914]

Dude, I want to see what you are doing with wasmer, but I usually cant join the stream because of timezones and stuff. Can you just drop a hint somewhere on twitter or here that you are starting so I know when to go and watch recordings? Very excited!

[@jkennethking]

They need to update their tutorials and docs. Getting it running in the browser was, when I tried it last week, not working.

[@schneefackel7053]

> WASM on the server > "look, we've replicated all of POSIX" Is this some kind of a joke? Everything that can compile to WASM can also compile to native code, so why not just go native then?

[@nekomakhea9440]

POSIX on WASM sounds amazing. It kinda sounds like BSD's rump kernels, but OS agnostic.

[@ThePrimeTimeagen]

yeah, i think it could be amazing, especially the fact you can just run any program that can be wasm compiled on it.

[@pauloffborba]

It will be nice to see some examples

[@Shri]

7:05 why restart the system? DNS cache can be flushed easily no? Two commands: $ sudo systemd-resolve --flush-caches $ sudo resolvectl flush-caches Should do the trick?

[@Wolfeur]

I'm not very knowledgeable about this, what's the plu-value of WASM on the server compared to a normal compiling?

[@javierflores09]

it's just the JVM all over again but better since you are not closed to a certain ecosystem as many languages compile to wasm

[@Wolfeur]

@@javierflores09 So basically the portability of Java with the perf of C/Rust/etc.?

[@pazu8728]

This reminds me of "Rebol", created by Carl Sassenrath.

[@VACatholic]

So we're recreating the JVM, but this time calling it WASM, and that's going to make it work. I mean that makes total sense to me. I don't see how this could possibly fail!

[@ThePrimeTimeagen]

You are out of line... but you are right

[@PeterBernardin]

I mean you can write WASM in pretty much any statically typed language, so that's a plus. But besides that, I would like to understand more of its benefits over JVM. Is it more lightweight maybe? Not sure.

[@zahawolfe]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4jWfH5popp4lbM wasm is MUCH more lightweight and faster

[@SimonBuchanNz]

Main differences are: * Flat untyped memory * Instructions are direct matches to hardware * Therefore much simpler and faster to validate and JIT And with WASI/whatever is going on with interface types in general, the promise of a much stronger capability based security model than the standard java context. So, the JVM, but for C.

[@VACatholic]

@@ThePrimeTimeagen It's funny. When I was a young boy, I was told that technology X was a recreation of technology Y, and we're just remaking the same mistake. I thought the old veteran was crazy. Now I see the same thing, and I understand his pain.

[@CyborusYT]

A lot of work is still going into WASI adding the features WASIX provides (and many more!) with much improved security. I've seen from some of the people working on it that WASIX feels like something of a slap in the face. WASIX is made by Wasmer. It is just an API handed down from on-high (it is not open!), then turns around and accused WASI of being closed off and inaccessible (WASI is open!). Very unsettling.

[@smithright]

Come back to this, Prime!

[@jonforhan9196]

WASM is a compilation target

[@sawood2010]

So do we keep JS around to getElementById things, and let wasm do the rest?

[@ThePrimeTimeagen]

maybe?

[@tbfromsd]

Many devs are still going to want high level abstractions and guardrails no matter how successful WASM is. I would imagine even if all event driven functionality is handled in C or Rust, JS will continue being used in UI. Or some subsets or libraries will be created on the low and high level to make day to day development more standardized. Either way I am amped, been setting aside time to really learn Rust. Being a Dev for 26 years I look forward to maybe my last era being a right tool for the job era, instead of the how do we make JS do this era that has dominated the last decade.

[@dandogamer]

@@tbfromsd I really hate the "do everything in JS era". Problem is it's like a fucking snowball. Everyone is making libraries for it which means when it comes to project time the choice is between using an existing js library or build it yourself. And companies want things done fast :(

[@FaZekiller-qe3uf]

Now I just have to wait for it to actually be ready.

[@animanaut]

looks like js kids need to learn to play with the new kid in the browser sandbox

[@catcatcatcatcatcatcatcatcatca]

DNS is easy. Just never use resources outside your LAN and memorise all the static addresses in it. If you want to use the guest wifi I need your MAC address.

[@quachhengtony7651]

blazor wasm did it before it was cool

[@daltonyon]

Awesome, I'll take a look later

[@stanrock8015]

did you deep dive this?

[@ishikawako3521]

Why did he shout "tokio"? Perhaps is it "Juliana's Tokyo" by DJ John Robinson.

[@marju101010]

Whats is the name of the book about networking?

[@edhahaz]

Java: Hey browser look at my new Applet feature! *Ughhhh no* Browser people 10 years later: Hey look what new cool feature we are inventing

[@allesarfint]

But no Java, so huge W

[@sohn7767]

JavaApplets sucked for a reason

[@ddystopia8091]

Why is it needed to run wasm on the server? We do know what hardware and architecture is on the server, couldn't we compile to native?

[@NathanHedglin]

Sure you can. WASM gets you closer to a container like environment with WASI(X)

[@dungeonmir]

I have a small question. Does the wasm, webgpu etc. found a solution to stop miners and other dangerous software from turning client into money farm?

[@lubba64]

that's kind of a problem of any application out there. I don't think thats a specific issue with this stack.

[@SimonBuchanNz]

Browsers have mitigations, but if you go to a website for the purpose of using your CPU and GPU you don't want it complaining that it's actually doing that, so it's mostly focused on third party adverts trying that.

[@dungeonmir]

@@lubba64 I mean common website has no power over your gpu, but with all these new features(i mean webgpu and wasm) the danger of exposing your machine to malicious code is increasing, in my opinion

[@MeriaDuck]

In my world it is always TLS, not DNS that is causing havoc or headaches.

[@dynamite-bud]

In my world too 😢 compiling rustls to wasix

[@aiomixrecords]

indeed, any success with TLS + wasix?

[@thingsiplay]

WASM + WASIX = WASMIX

[@JorgetePanete]

WASMIX + WASI + JVM = WASABI

[@_..-_-.._]

POSIX , WASIX ...

[@kumarthangudu3061]

Wasmer is the future.

[@noext7001]

still dont understand what is wasm and why use it

[@dealloc]

Portability and security.

[@SimonBuchanNz]

It's actually very simple. It's a small instruction set virtual machine designed for very fast JIT with good output. Unlike JavaScript or Java's environment, you have a flat memory model (an array of bytes) that you can arbitrarily read and write. The net result is you can compile C or Rust or whatever native language you want, then run it in any environment you want, with near native performance. You can compile a bunch of existing image compressors and run it in the browser, you can compile tiny 4 like functions and run them on edge servers spread all over the world, most use cases for docker are covered, as the tweet says, and so on. The only real limitations at the moment are technical things like SIMD for performance and that the host has to ferry data back and forwards across the interface, which is great for security but bad for performance in certain use cases like DOM modifications.

[@SmugDarkLoser10]

People want a cross-platform standard hardware architecture + hw interfaces , but hardware is slow to evolve and very proprietary, so this is an attempt at building that in software. It makes sense, but technically the proper place to solve it is from the hw companies. Maybe if this is successful you'd see companies making wasm machines. It's really just a rehash of the JVM promise. Same shit really. Probably the right solution is not to build stuff on top of other stuff, since standardization of behavior by building a new uniform interface on top of the old cruft is pretty much a classic problem in software that is done repeatedly. Wasm seems like it's done well and smart, but the JVM is probably the same type of solution, and you can easily see if wasm were successful, that it'd add cruft over time, and then it's basically just another shitty layer in the middle of it all.

[@Dylan-jp4vw]

P2P hole punching is the future replacement in DNS

[@PaulSebastianM]

2:47 click on repeat! 😂

[@sugasheeze]

POSIX? Excuse me, it’s pronounced POO-SEX.

[@JamesRouzier]

forking can be tricky

[@huynhtrung6338]

next video, could you do me a favor by putting the link of the talk in description? Thanks

[@istovall2624]

Yet again I am here promoting blazor.

[@viinz6139]

Nice :)

[@NathanHedglin]

Blazor is cool. Unfortunately probably won't ever be all that performant

[@istovall2624]

@@NathanHedglin have 2 prod apps happen to be react and blazor wasm, only noticeable difference is wasm startup time is like 1 second longer. Should probably run tests, but there has been 0 customer complaints.

[@viinz6139]

@@istovall2624 pretty much my experience with it, if startup isn't crucial it's really nice

[@qchtohere8636]

Yey.. Another attack surface...

[@im-essi]

skill issue

[@Originalimoc]

Huh... Just checked out WASI then this came out.

[@svaira]

Do i understand this correctly, that, for example, you could jist write a webmailer without a backend, just with a raw unix socket on Imap? That would be pretty cool. Tofay you still have to reroute through a websocket proxy. I may have to wait until this actually works everywhere (I'm not quite sure about mobile atm), but in principle this seems very nice for web interfaces/clients to other services.

[@anonymousalexander6005]

And it simplifies Server hosting significantly without relying on NodeJS or JVM runtimes locking you into JS.

[@svaira]

@@anonymousalexander6005 Or without writing your own websocket implementation, which is also not pleasant (let alone safe, since you have to add all the ssl stuff yourself then)

[@m4rt_]

6:50 IT'S ALWAYS DNS

[@monkev1199]

I recall someone was complaining about fork in wasix. And to be fair fork needs to die

[@emok1ttyk4t]

TOKIOOOO

[@dickheadrecs]

WASIX MAKES WASM LOOK LIKE WASFIVE

[@dickheadrecs]

you spoke. we listened. we put posix in ur wasm. finally u can fossick with opossums.

[@jaysistar2711]

Do you know what your problem is? If not, then it's probably DNS. You're welcome!

[@laughingvampire7555]

so you are talking a "write once run everywhere" mmm where the heck did I heard this before, o yea is called JAVA!!! basically they are reinventing JAVA & GraalVM

[@Dylan-jp4vw]

I hate DNS too

[@AmeKniteCS]

WASI is great, but WASIX ...

[@heavymetalmixer91]

So . . . will finally Javascript die so I can throw it in the trash?

[@happygofishing]

java but no oracle

[@covle9180]

It's always DNS.

[@bigmandan]

It's always DNS

[@ariseyhun2085]

Sadly a lot of people, including myself, are not a fan of the wasmer company. Wasmtime are the real pioneers

[@ko-Daegu]

I love my code runing half the speed

[@ariseyhun2085]

@@ko-Daegu no idea where you got that idea from. Wasmtime is typically faster. As a test, I just installed the latest versions of wasmtime and wasmer, and wrote a basic fibonachi benchmark (fib(47)) in Rust and ran using wasmtime and wasmer: Wasmer: 23.27 seconds Wasmtime: 23.13 seconds Edit: It turns out it was much faster using the --llvm flag for wasmer, but not sure why this isn't default

[@dynamite-bud]

It's not on default because it takes too long to compile. Wasmer offers three backends single-pass, cranelift from wasmtime and LLVM. Each with their advantages. I think by default you ran cranelift.

[@laughingvampire7555]

well, the main problem is the UNIX zealots, don't get me wrong, I like the idea of UNIX philosophy but the problem is that is still stuck in the 1970s with the minimalist ALGOL-ish approach, remember that C is ALGOL stripped of all its features. UNIX zealotry never allowed for something like WASI

[@Robert-ht5kd]

Why do you need async? For example Go pretends to have async but under the hood it uses threads that sleep when they wait for reply/data.

[@morningsky518]

Second