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This is quite cool... But at the same time, please tell me this is not the future of software packaging.

• withinboredom 3y ago
  Allow me to introduce you to https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death... Everything is on track.
  • cryptonector 3y ago
    I love all of Gary Bernhardt's talks.
• actionfromafar 3y ago
  Newt: My mommy always said there were no monsters, no real ones, but there are. Ripley: Yes, there are, aren't there? Newt: Why do they tell little kids that? Ripley: Most of the time it's true. --- But yes, I do believe this has a strong, serverless future.
  • ronsor 3y ago
    Downloading a 50MB WASM blob to run an emulator to boot a Linux kernel and then start an HTTP server to handle a single request is utter madness, which is probably why this will become popular to do.
    • flir 3y ago
      I can see my house from up here!
    • harrychin2 3y ago
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7AinOjDiNQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7AinOjDiNQ
    • peterleiser 3y ago
      This will probably be a minor component of the Qeng Ho's timekeeping system: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky#Interstellar_culture https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky#Inters...
• bnchrch 3y ago
  If this is a step on the road to wasm being the primary target for packaging applications (without a docker image + x86 emulator intermediary)... Then I am all for it.