Happy Path Programming #111 Wasm & MCP with Steve Manuel
Apr 10, 2025
Steve Manuel, founder of dylibso.com and mcp.run, dives deep into the world of WebAssembly and its game-changing potential for developers. He highlights how WebAssembly serves as an OS-like environment, enabling seamless integrations across various programming languages. The discussion also touches on the revolutionary Model Context Protocol to improve AI capabilities in developer tools. Additionally, Steve explores the exciting future of personal AIs and their role in balancing productivity with personal joy.
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Early WASM Epiphany
- Steve Manuel shared how compiling a Go program to WebAssembly to run in a browser hooked him early on WASM.
- Seeing output flushed to the browser console from compiled WASM amazed him and sparked deep interest.
WASM as Universal Bytecode
- WebAssembly has become a universal bytecode that runs everywhere from browser to edge and embedded devices.
- Xtism enables write once run anywhere through WASM's portability and multi-language embedding.
Use WIT for Cross-Language Interfaces
- Use WIT as a language-neutral description language to define interfaces for WASM modules.
- WIT standardizes type signatures so diverse languages can interoperate through a common API model.