Ivan Enderlin @hywan@fosstodon.org
PhD Computer Scientist/Hacker, main projects: Hoa, Tagua VM, atoum, Atlasr. Web & Rust lover. Current Wasmer; ex Automattic, Liip, fruux, Mozilla.
Joined Aug 2018
🐘🕸️ `php-ext-wasm`, the PHP extension to run WebAssembly binaries, is now compatible with all PHP versions with an active support, i.e. PHP 7.3 and 7.2, https://github.com/wasmerio/php-ext-wasm/pull/74
tl;dr: The PR adds support for PHP 7.2.
WasmerSharp, https://github.com/migueldeicaza/WasmerSharp.
.NET/C# bindings to @wasmer. It means you can use WebAssembly with C# inside .NET.
Neat!
The Rust compiler is still getting faster, https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2019/07/25/the-rust-compiler-is-still-getting-faster/.
We can’t say that @rustlang is slow to compile anymore. Kudos to the people behind those crazy improvements!
The CERN is migrating to open-source technologies, i.e. away from Microsoft, https://home.cern/news/news/computing/migrating-open-source-technologies.
The reason is: Lisenses are becoming too expensive (their status has changed, they don’t get the same offer).
WebAssembly is now W3C candidate recommandations (understand official stable standards), https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/7864.
It is a set of 3 documents: Core, JS API, and Web API.
Automattic acquires Tumblr, https://photomatt.tumblr.com/post/186964618222/automattic-tumblr.
That’s great!
When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop, https://slack.engineering/rebuilding-slack-on-the-desktop-308d6fe94ae4
Slack explains how they rebuilt their entire software piece by piece, and shows the outcomes.
Wasmer takes WebAssembly server-side, https://www.infoworld.com/article/3411496/wasmer-takes-webassembly-server-side.html.
#webassembly
🐍🕸️ wasmer (the Python library to run WebAssembly binaries) is now 10x faster to write sequence in memory, https://github.com/wasmerio/python-ext-wasm/pull/63
This PR adds support for memory view slice assignments, e.g. `view[0:13] = bytes(…)`.
Enjoy faster executions!
Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules, https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11, now on Github.
We Need a Safer Systems Programming Language, https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/18/we-need-a-safer-systems-programming-language/.
Microsoft is stating that 70% of security vulnerabilities are about memory safety issues. They are due to C/C++ being unsafe languages.
A solution to replace such languages is Rust.
#microsoft @rustlang
Notes on a smaller Rust, https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/notes-on-a-smaller-rust/.
There are some discussions about having Rust without less features. This blog post explores the idea by pointing what makes Rust safe, and what could be _really_ removed if it wasn't designed to be a system language.
Europe is now formally investigating Amazon's use of merchant data, https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/17/europe-is-now-formally-investigating-amazons-use-of-merchant-data/.
Microsoft to explore using Rust, https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-explore-using-rust/.
70% of their bugs in the last 12 years, are about memory safety. Rust would almost remove that part. That’s basically huge.
How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2019, https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2019/07/17/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-2019/.
Once again, Nethercote
is making an awesome job!
Go `try` proposal declined ahead of schedule, https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32437.
🐹🕸️ go-ext-wasm —wasmer— 0.2.0 released, https://github.com/wasmerio/go-ext-wasm/releases/tag/0.2.0
Some highlights:
* Can grow memory
* Import/export descriptors
* Module de-/serialization
* Instance context data
* Set import namespaces
* Tested on macOS
Made with ❤️ at @wasmerio
💎🕸️ ruby-ext-wasm —wasmer— 0.3.0 released, https://github.com/wasmerio/ruby-ext-wasm/releases/tag/0.3.0
Some highlights:
* New `Memory.grow` method
* Typed arrays implement the Enumerable mixin
* Exported functions implement `respond_to_existing?`
* Improve exceptions
* Create the `Wasmer` module
Made with ❤️ at @wasmerio
🐍🕸️ python-ext-wasm —wasmer— 0.3.0 released, https://github.com/wasmerio/python-ext-wasm/releases/tag/0.3.0
Some highlights:
* New `Memory.grow` method
* New `Module` class
* Module de-/serialization
* Support void Wasm exported functions
* Better documentation
Made with ❤️ at @wasmer
🐘🕸️ php-ext-wasm 0.5.0 has been released, https://github.com/wasmerio/php-ext-wasm/releases/tag/0.5.0
Some highlights:
* Rust is no longer required to build the extension
* Improve function invocation time by 77%
* Can grow memory
* Compilation fixed on CentOS
Made with ❤️ at @wasmer
PhD Computer Scientist/Hacker, main projects: Hoa, Tagua VM, atoum, Atlasr. Web & Rust lover. Current Wasmer; ex Automattic, Liip, fruux, Mozilla.
Joined Aug 2018
