WebAssembly has gone through quite a transformation this last year, while the wasm language landscape is slowly shifting, the more notable change is in what people are using WebAssembly for. The use of wasm for serverless, containerisation and as a plug-in technology has leapt considerably, with WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) becoming ever more important.
This blog posts shares the results of the third annual State of WebAssembly survey, where we found that Rust and JavaScript usage continues to increase, but there is a growing desire for Zig and Kotlin. The use of wasm as a plugin environment continues to climb, with developers hoping it will deliver of the “write once and run anywhere” promise.
There is an ongoing tug-of-war over the future of server-side WebAssembly. One side embraces the idea that Wasm was designed in the context of a broader web...
Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
In this issue, serverless databases get another thumbs up from VCs, we get a free master class on inconsistent database consistency, and we learn why Serverless Aurora v2 isn't serverless.