WASM Unleashed

In this episode our hosts are joined by Fastly’s Luke Wagner to discuss WebAssembly, async, and streams. Listen in to learn about the history and evolution of ASMJS, find out if sync and async functions will split WebAssembly, get a rundown on the concept of backpressure, and hear discussion regarding Joel Dice’s project ISYSWASFA (who you might get to hear from soon, so subscribe for future episodes 😉 ).

Chapters:
00:37 – Meet the hosts and community updates
3:15 – Special guest: Luke Wagner
3:49 – This history and evolution of ASMJS
9:15 – Async and Streams in WebAssembly
10:27 – How async might work in the component model
17:37 – The concept of back pressure
19:08 – Stages of async
21:41 – Joel Dice’s project ISYSWASFA
26:51 – Fastly’s Compute Management and WebAssembly
29:59 – Closing remarks and future excitement

Dig into the Wasm.IO session recordings we mentioned:

A stream of consciousness on the future of async in the Component Model by Luke Wagner @ Wasm I/O 24 - https://youtu.be/y3x4-nQeXxc?si=3XGqdqa9W3WjXSzl

For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites: 
Blogs - https://www.f5.com/company/octo
Reports - https://www.f5.com/services/resources/reports

Meet Your Hosts:
Joel Moses | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelmoses/ | https://community.f5.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/398372
Oscar Spencer | https://twitter.com/oscar_spen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/
Matthew Yacobucci | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/

WebAssembly Async and Streams – Ep 8 – WebAssembly Unleashed

Welcome to WebAssembly Unleashed with hosts Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matt Yacobucci. Join us as we dive into the latest happenings in the Wasm community. Fresh from WasmCon, the team delves into the evolving WebAssembly standards, including the upcoming WASI Preview 3 featuring async and streams. Special guest Alessandro Pignotti, CTO of Leaning Technologies, shares his journey in reviving Adobe Flash content with LightSpark and introduces WebVM, a groundbreaking project to run legacy applications in the browser. Discover how WebAssembly is preserving early web content and the immense potential it holds for both client-side and enterprise applications. Tune in for an engaging discussion on the past, present, and future with WebAssembly!
  
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to WebAssembly Unleashed
00:47 Recap of WasmCon Highlights
01:38 WASI Preview 3 Excitement
02:50 Exploring WebAssembly on the Client Side
03:34 The Rise and Fall of Early Web Technologies
07:04 Reviving Legacy Web Content with WebAssembly
11:45 Challenges and Innovations in WebAssembly
22:24 Legacy Code and WebAssembly
23:17 Introduction to Cheerp and CheerpJ
25:35 Introducing CheerpX
26:16 The Future of WebAssembly and Gaming
28:48 The Importance of Internet Archive
30:23 WebAssembly Specification and Performance
33:28 WebVM: From Experiment to Reality
38:47 WebVM Hackathon and Community Engagement

For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites: 
Blogs - https://www.f5.com/company/octo
Reports - https://www.f5.com/services/resources/reports
  
Meet Your Hosts:
Joel Moses | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelmoses/ | https://community.f5.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/398372
Oscar Spencer | https://twitter.com/oscar_spen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/
Matthew Yacobucci | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/
 
Follow and connect with our guest:
Alessandro Pignotti | https://x.com/alexpignotti 
Leaning Technologies | https://discord.leaningtech.com 
WebVM | https://webvm.io/

WebAssembly: Saving the Early Internet – Ep 13 – WebAssembly Unleashed

In this episode of WebAssembly Unleashed, hosts Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matt Yacobucci discuss recent developments in the world of WebAssembly, including government involvement and new standards. They are joined by special guest Till Schneidereit, Principal Engineer at Fermyon and Co-Founder of the Bytecode Alliance, who shares insights on the creation and mission of Bytecode Alliance and discusses the importance of cross-industry collaboration in the development of WebAssembly. Till also offers valuable governance advice and reflects on the broad impact of their work.
  
Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to WebAssembly Unleashed
00:41 Bytecode Alliance Election Results
01:09 Government Involvement in WebAssembly
      NIST IR 8505: https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/ir/8505/final
02:47 Introducing Special Guest Till Schneidereit
03:10 Founding of Bytecode Alliance
03:55 What is the Bytecode Alliance?
05:05 Why the Bytecode Alliance exists
10:06 Challenges and Successes in Bytecode Alliance
15:30 W3C and Bytecode Alliance Comparison
19:14 Getting Involved with W3C or Bytecode Alliance
21:15 Governance and Open Source Sustainability 
30:55 Future of WebAssembly and Bytecode Alliance

For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites: 
Blogs - https://www.f5.com/company/octo
Reports - https://www.f5.com/services/resources/reports
  
Meet Your Hosts:
Joel Moses | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelmoses/ | https://community.f5.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/398372
Oscar Spencer | https://twitter.com/oscar_spen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/
Matthew Yacobucci | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/

Bytecode Alliance + | Ep 14 | WebAssembly Unleashed

Join hosts Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matthew Yacobucci as they take a retrospective look at WebAssembly's exciting developments from 2024 and share their insightful predictions for 2025. This special episode covers groundbreaking advancements in WebAssembly core technology, the WASI ecosystem, and highlights notable progress from previous guests like Bailey Hayes, Pat Hickey, Chris Dickinson, and more. Discover the evolving trends in WebAssembly, its increasing adoption in production, and what the future holds for this transformative technology. Don't miss our rundown of core WebAssembly updates, the rise of server-side applications, and expert commentary on what's next for WASI and WebAssembly in AI and security workloads. Unleash the power and promise of WebAssembly with us!

Chapters: 
00:00 Welcome to WebAssembly Unleashed
00:39 Reflecting on a Year of WebAssembly
01:30 Updates from Past Guests
03:02 Core WebAssembly Developments: Garbage Collection, Memory64, and more…
06:06 WASI's Banner Year
10:08 WASI Preview 3
15:47 Community Trends and Developments
23:49 Predictions for 2025
	
For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites: 
Blogs -  https://www.f5.com/company/octo
Reports -  https://www.f5.com/services/resources/reports

Meet Your Hosts:
Joel Moses | www.linkedin.com/in/joelmoses/ | community.f5.com/t5/user/viewprof…e/user-id/398372
Oscar Spencer | twitter.com/oscar_spen | www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/
Matthew Yacobucci | www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/

State of WebAssembly 2025 | Ep 15 | WebAssembly Unleashed

Join hosts Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matthew Yacobucci  as they discuss recent WebAssembly advancements, such as data science in browsers with WebR, LibreOffice now running as ZetaOffice, and a unique case study from Dagger.IO on replacing a React front end with Go and WebAssembly. The team is joined by special guest, journalist and analyst Bruce Gain, who shares his insights on the impact of WebAssembly in gaming and its applications in various industries. Topics include performance benchmarking, the evolution of WebAssembly, and its potential tipping points for mainstream media attention. Tune in for an engaging conversation about the future of WebAssembly and its broader implications.
 
Chapters: 
00:00 Welcome to WebAssembly Unleashed
00:57 Exciting WebAssembly Developments
02:38 Oscar's Insights from the Wasm Community
04:28 Special Guest: Analyst and Journalist Bruce Gain
05:22 WebAssembly in Gaming
09:16 Future of Gaming with WebAssembly
13:03 Media Perspective on WebAssembly
15:08 WebAssembly Garners Media Attention 
19:06 What can WebAssembly do to create a media tipping point?
21:36 Security Implications of WebAssembly
24:04 AI and WebAssembly: A Synergistic Future
28:40 ReveCom Project and Benchmarking Efforts
34:16 Future of WebAssembly in Media and Technology
 
Read more on recent developments discussed by the hosts:
Replacing React with Go: https://dagger.io/blog/replaced-react-with-go
R in the Browser: https://blog.jupyter.org/r-in-the-browser-announcing-our-webassembly-distribution-9450e9539ed5
LibreOffice built for the Wasm runtime: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/libreoffice_wasm_zetaoffice/ ; https://zetaoffice.net/
 
For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites: 
Blogs -  https://www.f5.com/company/octo
Reports -  https://www.f5.com/services/resources/reports

Meet Your Hosts:
Joel Moses | www.linkedin.com/in/joelmoses/ | community.f5.com/t5/user/viewprof…e/user-id/398372
Oscar Spencer | twitter.com/oscar_spen | www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/
Matthew Yacobucci | www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/

The Analyst's View of Wasm | Ep 16 | WebAssembly Unleashed

Join Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matt Yacobucci as they discuss the latest news and recent developments in WebAssembly, such as Zig 0.140 and projects like running Linux inside a PDF file. This episode features special guest Nick Fitzgerald, a notable contributor to WasmTime and CraneLift, who explains the concept of garbage collection in programming. The discussion covers  garbage collection in the context of WebAssembly, diving into algorithms, their implications, and challenges in implementation. They also touch upon the future of WebAssembly in embedded systems and the broader applications of these technologies in various programming languages like Java and Python. Don't miss this engaging and informative episode!
	
Chapters: 
00:00 Welcome to WebAssembly Unleashed
00:57 What's interesting this week in WebAssembly? 
02:12 Linux PDF: A WebAssembly Feat
03:29 Understanding Garbage Collection with guest Nick Fitzgerald
05:20 Reference Counting vs Tracing Garbage Collection
	A Unified Theory of Garbage Collection paper: https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse590p/05au/p50-bacon.pdf
7:22 What's driving the push to get GC into WebAssembly right now?
10:25 What makes Garbage Collection implementation so difficult?
12:09 Challenges in Garbage Collection Implementation
15:19 Are you bound by the language runtime GC or by the Wasm runtime?
19:32 Challenges in Type Systems Implementation
22:59 Object-Oriented Hierarchies and Python
24:34 Garbage Collection Proposal Insights
31:35 Will the end users have extra work?
32:50 Can GC help with Ahead of time Compiling?
35:11 Fuzz Testing and Bug Fixing
36:05 Custom Page Size Proposal
38:03 Future of Garbage Collection Algorithms
	
Did you miss the WebAssembly Unleashed episode with Gilad Bracha? Check it out here:
What WebAssembly can learn from JAVA’s history | Ep5 | WebAssembly Unleashed https://youtu.be/BQjTShpa8VM?si=S4sHWZeRqVIbCdn_
	
For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites: 
Blogs -  https://www.f5.com/company/octo
Reports -  https://www.f5.com/services/resources/reports
	
Meet Your Hosts: 
Joel Moses | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelmoses/ | https://community.f5.com/users/joel_moses/398372 
Oscar Spencer | https://twitter.com/oscar_spen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/ 
Matthew Yacobucci | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/


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