"the first credible open (as in, not owned by Oracle or MS) standard for a real cross language VM" It's great that you're developing WASI but I don't see how i

"the first credible open (as in, not owned by Oracle or MS) standard for a real cross language VM" It's great that you're developing WASI but I don't see how it's any more open than the JVM or .NET CLR. Obviously from a licensing perspective it's not any different, anyone can go implement the JVM or CLR specs. In the past the JVM and Java even had a rather complicated community process designed to disempower Sun, some aspects of which remain today. It sounds like WASM/WASI is something similar but with Fastly being the dominant company instead of Oracle/MS. I went to the bytecodealliance github repo and picked a random repository with "wasi" in the name and looked at the last commit. It was by someone who works at Fastly. Technical specs always have some firm or another pushing more than others at any given point, that's not what determines if they're open or not. Also, both the JVM and CLR have had support for mutually distrusting components from the start, so that's not really new either. That support didn't get widespread use because sandboxing even at the process level for individual apps is still rather rare, and sandboxing at the sub-component level proved too hard to get right with the CLR/JVM approach. It's probably better to argue that what you're doing with WASI is better in some concrete technical sense rather than arguing it's new.