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The philosopher who believes in Web Assembly

The Stack Overflow Podcast

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The Virtues of WebAssembly

WebAssembly is sort of like yet another evolution of the kinds of patterns in programming, language and language virtual machine runtime developers have been discovering and innovating in since Java. By default, you as the binary author don't get to make any decisions about what you're dealing with when it comes to file system process table or stuff like that. And so that security model is what first raised our eyebrows and made us say, wait a minute, this is a candidate for a third kind of cloud computing.

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