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Re: Wasmer 5.0

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Post by NitpickLawyer »

enugu wrote: post #40

Could this ever function as a less resource intensive substitute for Electron apps? WASM doesn't have DOM access, but could it be added in these extensions? Edit: Maybe this question doesn't make sense as the OS would need to have the runtime installed, and if that can be assumed, we would have lightweight apps already.

Ha e a look at Tauri for a less resource intensive electron alternative. Written in rust and supports any framework on the frontend side, with strong access control & lightweight backend.

Re: Wasmer 5.0

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Post by NitpickLawyer »

thrdbndndn wrote: post #37
spretzer wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the issue with AI-generated images? Just being overdone in general? Or ethical concerns?

Makes your article looks cheap like a random blogspam. My personal opinion, obviously.

What's the difference between this and a generic photo from one of the dozens stock photo catalogs? Is this somehow "cheaper" because it's "AI" generated? Using stock photos is also cheap (free or cents per)...

Second, does anyone really care? Has anyone spent more than half a second looking at a generic picture on an unrelated article? Does the generic hoodie hacker look good on security articles? Or the earth with pretty links on a networking article? Or the overdone handshake on a deal article? They feel equally as cheap and more importantly equally unimportant. It's a placeholder that noone should really care about.

Third, what's the value of having human beings spend time on an image that's just there to fill space? I kinda get the argument for company identity and things that matter, but filler for an article? Nah, that's exactly where we shouldn't be spending human resources, IMO.

Re: Wasmer 5.0

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Post by bschwindHN »

1oooqooq wrote: post #43
bschwindHN wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Hacking on a wasm component model and wasi based plugin system these days. Same here! Can you share what you're working on? I'm (slowly) making a 3D CAD modeling API, so you write Rust code to define a model, and compile it to WASM so it can hot-reload and let you iterate faster. https://github.com/bschwind/opencascade-rs/tree/main/crates/...

shape.faces().farthest(Direction::PosZ) nice. is this original from openscad (if that even is your inspiration)?

OpenSCAD is of course the OG for code-based CAD, but this particular syntax came about from converting CadQuery-esque queries into Rust iterators with a bit more type-safety instead of something stringly-typed.

Here's a snippet from a CadQuery example:

    # 3a. The top-most Z face is selected using the >Z selector.
    # 3b. The lower-left vertex of the faces is selected with the Z").vertices("
Right now it just does a naive linear search but at some point I'd like to extend it to use more of OpenCascade's underlying geometric acceleration structures (which I assume exist), and add more and more iterator adapters.

Re: Wasmer 5.0

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Post by thrdbndndn »

NitpickLawyer wrote: post #52
thrdbndndn wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Makes your article looks cheap like a random blogspam. My personal opinion, obviously.

What's the difference between this and a generic photo from one of the dozens stock photo catalogs? Is this somehow "cheaper" because it's "AI" generated? Using stock photos is also cheap (free or cents per)... Second, does anyone really care? Has anyone spent more than half a second looking at a generic picture on an unrelated article? Does the generic hoodie hacker look good on security articles? Or the earth with…

I think using a stock photo in this case is also bad but not as bad; because the photo itself usually looks fine.

I hate AI-generated photo more simply because they're not good enough (yet) to not look fake immediately; it even has somewhat uncanny valley effect. If one day they're as good as stock photos, then my opinion with them would be on par with that, too.

I care, hence the comment. Can't speak for others.

> where we shouldn't be spending human resources

I agree; which is why in general I don't see the need to include irrelevant pictures at all for a software release post.

Re: Wasmer 5.0

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Post by pjmlp »

Starlevel004 wrote: post #9
MuffinFlavored wrote: post #2

Cool release! I've yet to personally find a good use case for wasm in any project, kind of the same way I'm not quite sure what to do with a bunch of Raspberry Pis It fills a need, I just don't know who/what has that need. Example: Say I write a bunch of Rust async projects for fun. Scraping APIs, etc. How/why would I choose wasm/wasmer to do that instead? I'd do it in Rust (awkwardly/in some specific non-standard wa…

WASM has two primary usages: 1) Making canvas webapps with unblockable ads built-in 2) Downloading and running random blobs of other people's code in a sandbox

I am happy with

3) Bring back all the plugins that were taken away.

See no other use for it.

Re: Wasmer 5.0

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Post by nextaccountic »

nextaccountic wrote: post #48
DustinBrett wrote: post #29

I wish they had a solution that didn't require Cross-Origin Isolated headers. I am still using an older version where that wasn't required.

What do you mean? Wasmer isn't a web frontend tech

Well apparently it is? I am confused https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-js

Don't browsers support wasm natively?

Re: Wasmer 5.0

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Post by wg0 »

jsheard wrote: post #28
wg0 wrote: post #27

Sorry to be that guy but what's the business model for all these web assembly runtime companies?

This one runs their own serverless platform that you can deploy your WASM apps to, but their pricing is... vague.

I think it's same docker Inc. all over. A great open source tool but no viable business model.

Re: Wasmer 5.0

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Post by thiht »

I have a hard time understanding what Wasmer does from their landing page. I understand it runs everything everywhere, unbound and above the cloud, but what does it do? From the name it seems like a very dev oriented product, and I can’t find a single technical word, just buzzwords
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