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Solomon Hykes, the founder of Docker, once famously said:
“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.”
As implied by this quote and its context in relation to containers, you might have deduced that Wasm is particularly impactful for both abstraction levels that have containers at their core—PaaS and FaaS. And, if you did, you would be right! In 2022, Docker announced its Docker+Wasm Technical Preview, which allows you to run Wasm workloads within their platform using the same containerization technologies. While these “Wasm containers” still adhere to the OCI image format and runtime specifications, they leverage Wasm's unique capabilities for running lightweight, secure, and portable applications.
WebAssembly: The Big Picture - by Barry Luijbregts
“WebAssembly could revolutionize the web. In this course, you’ll learn what it is and why it is important. You’ll learn what creating applications with WebAssembly looks like, and how you can use it to create web applications using languages like C” with Blazor.
“At the core of developing fast web application is a thorough knowledge of WebAssembly. In WebAssembly: The Big Picture, you’ll learn what WebAssembly is and why it is important. First, you’ll learn where WebAssembly came from. Next, you’ll explore what WebAssembly is. Finally, you’ll discover how to work with WebAssembly. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have a foundational knowledge of what WebAssembly is, where it came from and why it is important, that will help you as you move forward to develop fast web applications.”
- What Is WebAssembly?
- Where Did WebAssembly Come From?
- Working with WebAssembly
- Why Is WebAssembly Such a Big Deal?
- Resources to Learn More
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- Which web browsers support WebAssembly? All major web browsers
- What is the purpose of the WebAssembly Community Group? To promote early-stage cross-browser collaboration on WebAssembly
- What is the purpose of the W3C WebAssembly Working Group? Make WebAssembly into an official web standards.
- Where does WebAssembly run? In the JavaScript runtime in web browsers
- How can you use programming languages with WebAssembly? By compiling them into WebAssembly code or by running them on a runtime that runs on WebAssembly.
- Why is WebAssembly faster than JavaScript? Because it is more optimized than JavaScript, which means that the runtime doesn’t have to do as much work to understand it
- Why is WebAssembly so performant? Because it is optimized to run fast and it compiles to small files (byte code)
- Why would you use WebAssembly? Because it is performant, you can compile other languages into WebAssembly, and it is part of web browsers.
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- Snippet from Wikipedia: WebAssembly
WebAssembly (Wasm) defines a portable binary-code format and a corresponding text format for executable programs as well as software interfaces for facilitating communication between such programs and their host environment.
The main goal of WebAssembly is to facilitate high-performance applications on web pages, but it is also designed to be usable in non-web environments. It is an open standard intended to support any language on any operating system, and in practice many of the most popular languages already have at least some level of support.
Announced in 2015 (2015) and first released in March 2017 (2017-3), WebAssembly became a World Wide Web Consortium recommendation on 5 December 2019 and it received the Programming Languages Software Award from ACM SIGPLAN in 2021. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) maintains the standard with contributions from Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Fastly, Intel, and Red Hat.
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