In a world of AI everywhere, off-line social interaction will be the major currency. We're all going to crave people... and each other.... The kids who grow up with social skills will be the most successful.

On the server side this is less clear. Typically we don't write system level languages server side - we use other languages, like Ruby, Python, JavaScipt etc. These interpreted languages can run in WASM, but only as language interpreter inside the WASM interpreter - so they work, but they are not efficient. The benefit to the cloud / infrastructure provider is often not-clear, not when it's possible to run these very same applications in existing infrastructure. On the server side the benefit to the application developer is also not clear. There are few providers who have infrastructure to support WASM applications directly. You'd really need to see the big 3 cloud providers look at supporting WASM directly, without hypervisors / vm / container technology under it, to realize any performance improvements and hence pass on some cost benefit to the developer ecosystem.

"running stuff in the browser"; isn't old news. There are a growing number of applications that are migrating toward web-based UI and for these WASM is really useful. WASI-Preview2's benefits are not going to be realized in a browser, it's more for the non-web world....

Rust-Focus; yes, you are correct the existing technology, with the exception of perhaps WAMR and CloudEdge runtimes are rust based. As WasmTime is the only standalone technology which currently supports preview2, and it's written in rust, then the associated examples and tooling are naturally rust focused.

WASI-threads is not compatible with WASI-Preview2

It's the same micro-attention span as a tweet, but the media has changed. In the immediate term it's video content. But this will also give way to the next thing...

But, unfortunately the written word requires more attention than modern internet users have to spare.

You mean in a OCI image, a bit like this? - https://docs.docker.com/desktop/wasm/

and then deployed using Kubernetes? - a bit like this - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/use-wasi-node-po...

Post COVID cloud spending is down. Companies are starting to wind in their IT budgets, why would they want to pay yet another subscription?

Alternative (game console model) printer company license right to make ink for printer. Printer company does not go bust.

Cost of printer is printer + driver + server over life time of printer... what the public pay; a single one time purchase price.... model doesn't work.

It was one of my first roles outside of Uni, boy getting exposed to everything from low level system software and kernels to application development, and API creation. I learnt so much. Much of which, in principle is still valid.

I learnt a lot from the other developers and engineers a met.

Remember sitting a room with David Wood, where we talked through the creation of a book about Python development / entry level development on the platform. I still recall David's view that we should use the best, easiest, and also most expensive tooling in the book. But that seemed to lock so many people out of the ecosystem.

Anyway - to many memories, and so much I learnt. Meeting PhDs, and Grads today who struggle with how C/C++ works, I'm really lucky I got the chance to work on it when I did. And now I've a craving for a Series 5mx... ebay here I come...

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I was tempted to switch, but now. No. Staying far and wide away. Not for the locking, but the terrible customer support.