Paul Butler - Drifting in Space, JamSocket
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WebAssembly
WebAssembly is bytecode language that can run in the browser and you can compile various languages to it. It's kind of like, I mean, as the name implies, like an assembly language for the web. One of the nice things about it is because it was designed to run in the browsers, it's both fast to start up and naturally very sandboxed where you don't have to worry about it touching things that it shouldn't touch. And another nice thing about the containers is just that people would already built things in containerized ways. But we didn't have to invent interfaces with the operating system or anything like that.
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