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> each key is a cryptographic contract implemented in Web Assembly

Hope more language start targeting WASI so the entire industry can get behind a single runtime.

For those unfamiliar, this would replace things like containers and allow more portability. It’s the dream of “write once, run anywhere” accept is language agnostic.

I’d imagine there would be a k8s-like infra tool for managing instances of WASM processes.

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I don’t want to be harsh, but to me it sounds pretty much like the value proposition of the JRE (Java Runtime Environment) et similia…

yeah, which is why I have “write once, run anywhere” in quotes. The difference being that this is language agnostic and run by standards bodies. its just a compilation target.

We already are trying to do write once, run anywhere with containerization, except that containers use lots of memory and space because you need to virtualize an entire OS.

Whereas WASM is just the bytecode for my program, and I can give that to a WASM interpreter or a compiler to compile to machine code.

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