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WebAssembly, despite having ‘web’ in its name, is proving to be much more than just a browser technology or JavaScript rival. The properties of this runtime (multi-language, lightweight, sandboxed, secure, cross-platform, etc) have piqued the interest of the wider community. In the past few years, we’ve seen WebAssembly used as the runtime for serverless, running smart contracts on blockchain, IoT, and edge computing. Ironically WebAssembly may have more of an impact outside of the browser!
This past year we’ve experienced growing concerns around open source sustainability and supply chain attacks, it’s even attracted the attention of the White House! Recent advances in systems programming languages seek to address the memory and thread safety challenges that are often the target of malicious exploits, advances which have catapulted Rust into the spotlight, leading to it becoming the ‘most loved’ language in the Stackoverflow survey four years running.
In this track, we’ll explore both WebAssembly outside of the browser and modern system programming languages, and see how often the two go hand-in-hand.
Jen Jajac is honored for "For her willpower that's driving nz.js(con) to existence. She's awesome! 😀
Excellence in organising the NZ js Conference and overall community contributions."
but while it's standalone, it's still a fair commitment in terms of footprint, weighing in at 116 tweets of javascript.