WASI: WebAssembly System Interface

1 · Guilherme Carreiro · May 30, 2021, 4:01 p.m.
In the latest two weeks, I had the opportunity of watching the QCon Plus talks. One of my favorite ones was the “WASI: A New Kind of System Interface” from Lin Clark 1, an excellent explanation of WASI and why the Bytecode Alliance is so important. WebAssembly is designed to run on the Web, but it’s not limited to Web 2. Many developers are taking advantage of the WASM capabilities to use whatever language they want in near-native performance. However, during this process, WASM applications wer...