"If #WASM + #WASI existed in 2008, we wouldn't have needed to create #Docker. That's how important it is. #WebAssembly on the server is the future of computing." — Solomon Hykes
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@peterrenshaw "WebAssembly empowers developers to run almost any language on the web—including high performance tools like C or C++."
This is, um, not new?
Obviously it's slightly snarky of me to judge a book by its blurb
But what does WebAssembly give me in that regard that just compiling my C / Lisp / Go service doesn't?
Guess I'll have to read the book (no snark there)
@duncan_bayne one issue with say CPP, availability of compilers for all platforms. I think of this as a run-anywhere, fast on some, the rest average
There is no silver bullet.