Overview

Bloomberg is thrilled to host Lin Clark and Till Schneidereit of Mozilla to talk about the future of WebAssembly in the following two parts.

1. WebAssembly’s Post-MVP Future

If the web were a video game franchise, then WebAssembly would be its latest hero. During the first part of our journey, our hero completed the first quest – making it possible to play PC games and build applications like AutoCAD on the web. But this journey is far from over! Many a quest awaits; whole worlds are left to explore! The browser, and our hero’s current skill set, is just the beginning.

In this talk, we’ll explore both charted and uncharted areas – from the JavaScript-rich lands of the browser, to the darkest reaches of the blockchain, to the airy heights of the cloud with CDNs, and beyond. And we’ll map out all of the features we need to unlock to take us to these new heights – threading, garbage collection, ES module integration and more!

2. Bringing WebAssembly outside the web with WASI

Earlier this year, we announced WASI, the WebAssembly system interface. With this system interface, WebAssembly can be used outside the browser in a portable and safe way.

As Solomon Hykes, co-founder of Docker, said, “If WASM+WASI existed in 2008, we wouldn’t have needed to create Docker. That’s how important it is. Webassembly on the server is the future of computing.”

But WASI will be useful for so many other use cases, too. In this talk, we’ll explain how WASI works and explore how different use cases can benefit from it.

Agenda

18:00 – 19:00

Arrival and reception

19:00 – 20:00

Talks

20:00 – 21:00

Drinks and networking

Speakers

Lin Clark

Principle Research Engineer
Mozilla

Lin Clark makes code cartoons, and is also a Principal Research Engineer at Mozilla. Her focus is on enabling WebAssembly’s use outside of the browser, working closely with Mozilla’s Developer Technologies team on projects such as the WebAssembly system interface (WASI) and the Wasmtime WebAssembly runtime.

Till Schneidereit

Developer Technologies Team, Manager
Mozilla
Till Schneidereit directs Mozilla’s Developer Technologies team. The team is responsible for Mozilla’s contributions to the Rust programming language; driving the Rust to WebAssembly compilation efforts; the Cranelift WebAssembly code generator; the Wasmtime WebAssembly runtime; and other projects around WebAssembly development and deployment. Till is also a delegate to the language standardization bodies for both JavaScript and WebAssembly.

When & Where

Thursday 18 July
18:00 – 21:00

Bloomberg L.P
3 Queen Victoria Street
London
EC4N 4TQ

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