The WASI Revolution: Luke Wagner on WebAssembly's Past, Present, and Future - WasmAssembly

In this episode, Thomas Steiner interviews Luke Wagner, who works at Fastly. You’ll hear them chat about Luke’s time at Mozilla, how he remembers the Wasm launch, the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) and the component model, his thoughts on where WebAssembly’s future lies, and much more. 

Resources:
Luke Wagner's Wasm announcement blog post for Mozilla → https://goo.gle/4bdxyT4  
The Wasm polyfill prototype → https://goo.gle/4bdiPHF     
The PLDI 2017 paper → https://goo.gle/4cvJpg7  
A WebAssembly milestone → https://goo.gle/4bcK455  
V8's Wasm announcement → https://goo.gle/3VHIanw  
Edge's Wasm announcement  → https://goo.gle/4cbbEAX  
The WebAssembly browser preview → https://goo.gle/4c912mk    
The magic number and the version field → https://goo.gle/45D4hjj  
The WebAssembly post-MVP future blog pos → https://goo.gle/45zcapQ  
WebAssembly performance patterns →https://goo.gle/4ce8qwE  
API Concerns with Structured Clone for Wasm Modules → https://goo.gle/3XCXZOH  
Formal description of serializing and deserializing a Module → https://goo.gle/4bdNowH  
Don't allow IndexedDB serialization of WebAssembly.Module → https://goo.gle/4bj8OZo  
Normative: Support [Serializable] for WebAssembly.Module → https://goo.gle/3z9Wjlv  
Cache support → https://goo.gle/3zd7pX7  
WebAssembly developers → https://goo.gle/4cd9v7Q  
WebAssembly — Caching to HTML5 IndexedDB → https://goo.gle/4c9KlqB  
The Lucet → https://goo.gle/4evkwTF  
The Lucet and Wasmtime teams join forces → https://goo.gle/45IbsH1  
Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla → https://goo.gle/3VD6Yg6  
What is WebAssembly?  → https://goo.gle/3xtnGGK  
Lucet Takes WebAssembly Beyond the Browser → https://goo.gle/4b9akxi  
Wasmtime—A fast and secure runtime for WebAssembly → https://goo.gle/3xiVpTr  
How Lucet and Wasmtime make a stronger compiler, together → https://goo.gle/3RCtULo  
WASI 0.2: Unlocking WebAssembly’s Promise Outside the Browser → https://goo.gle/4eMwyID  
WASI 0.2 Launched → https://goo.gle/3z8qA4a  
WebAssembly System Interface → https://goo.gle/4cxRGjA  
WASI proposals → https://goo.gle/3VD7xXg  
WASI HTTP → https://goo.gle/3VAiJ75  
The wit format → https://goo.gle/3VxVHO9  
What color is your function? → https://goo.gle/3KSVG2n  
A stream of consciousness on the future of async in the Component Model → https://goo.gle/3XxJdIY  
Revolutions podcast → https://goo.gle/3xgPdve  
Luke Wagner on GitHub → https://goo.gle/3VyqgmP  
Luke Wagner on X → https://goo.gle/3KWz40U  

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Speaker: Thomas Steiner