#wasmio
Last week at the #wasmio #wasmio23 conference our friends over at the VMWare Wasm Labs (🌐 wasmlabs.dev) presented about bringing interpreted languages to #WebAssembly — such as #ruby, #python, #php, and more, soon even comparably obscure languages like #tcl!).
Okay that was quite enough hashtags for now, but if your first thought was “…but why?!”, that's an easy answer: you want to meet your users where they are! What's better, telling your future users off with "sorry you will need to learn Rust/JavaScript/whatever first", or telling them "You know Python? Great, we support Python!"?
Exactly.
On the other hand, if your first thought was “okay... but how??” boy have I got a blogpost for you! Here we talk about how we use the Wasm Labs team's work in our extension engine at Suborbital:
https://blog.suborbital.dev/bringing-python-to-se2-with-webassembly
Got to hang out with many wonderful friends, both old & new (and some for the very first time in-person!) at #wasmio #wasmio23 this weekend :BlobCat_Love:
CW selfie, eye contact
w/ @hola_soy_milk @alvin @sylwia @baela & Roberto Vidal
(PS: WASM I/O was a truly splendid event and they have already announced next year's event, highly recommended :kittyWant: https://wasmio.tech )
“Every big-boy language today needs pattern matching, so naturally https://grain-lang.org has pattern matching!”
#wasmio #wasmio23 #webassembly
Wasm I/O Dan-ception: @ricochetcode on-stage, co-presenting with @danologue who is present via a pre-recorded video, himself referring back to @sunfish's earlier talk (without knowledge of the actual contents as it happened). :blobcateyesspin:
Hat tip for pulling off this "hybrid presence" moment, masterfully executed :foxClap:
“When it comes to WebAssembly-educators, we all, myself included, have a responsibility. I need to write and talk more — as I keep wanting to do so. We all know it's still early days for Wasm, but the time is now for us (especially with the Component Model around the corner) to start ramping up our efforts on contributing to making Wasm more approachable” — Oscar Spencer, speaking at the panel discussion at Wasm I/O 2023 (paraphrasing)
📸 @hola_soy_milk @k33g_org Oscar & @sylwia at #wasmio #wasmio23
“As a a devrel at @stackblitz I frequently have to liaison between engineers and e.g. product managers who have no idea what WebAssembly is. Not having an accessible description to what this technology entails is making that a lot harder than it should be…” — @sylwia at the Wasm I/O 2023 panel discussion on making #WebAssembly more accessible (somewhat paraphrased)
📸 @hola_soy_milk @k33g_org Oscar Spencer & @sylwia at #wasmio #wasmio23
I often like to say “Let computers do what computers do best”, and using IDLs (interface-definition languages) to describe the *intent* of the interface, then using binding generators to do the hard work of implementing that intent for us in a machine-understandable manner is such a beautiful example of that :BlobhajTinyHeart:
It has been a day-long trek but I have finally arrived to Barcelona for tomorrow's wasmio.tech to talk (and watch ppl talk) shop about #webassembly :blobcatnerd:
#wasmio