Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla

Post by toyg » Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 9:00 PM UTC

saghm wrote: post #27

tpxl wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my opinion, the acquihire you went through was poorly implemented, and the pay reduction disrespectful.

I think their more general point still stands, though; why would you expect a company trying to "sell" their employees to negotiate in the employees' best interests rather than that of the company itself?

Post by syrusakbary » Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 9:21 PM UTC

qppo wrote: post #21

syrusakbary wrote: post #4

I have mixed feelings about this. In one side, I'm happy that some of the people affected by the Mozilla layoffs have now secured a job. On the other side, now almost all the power of the WASI standard is concentrated into the Fastly corporation (with wider penetration thanks to the WASI integration in Rust). The main and only player of the Bytecode Alliance becomes Fastly as well (as Mozilla is out of the server-sid…

surely you have a better example of your gripe than closing a GH issue on the logo design... the whole conversation on your end seems petty and toxic, at first glance.

Post by qgrgergfqgfev » Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 9:24 PM UTC

ignoramous wrote: post #3

My money was on Cloudflare to have hired them wholesale. Regardless, congratulations to everyone involved! This deal has got me thinking... whether a right way to "lay-off" a supremely talented bunch is to actually see if other companies are willing to offer them jobs? Kind of how player transfers happen in Football (soccer). Either the team goes to the newer company wholesale or you help find your engineers suitable…

Post by oefrha » Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 9:29 PM UTC

qppo wrote: post #21

syrusakbary wrote: post #4

I have mixed feelings about this. In one side, I'm happy that some of the people affected by the Mozilla layoffs have now secured a job. On the other side, now almost all the power of the WASI standard is concentrated into the Fastly corporation (with wider penetration thanks to the WASI integration in Rust). The main and only player of the Bytecode Alliance becomes Fastly as well (as Mozilla is out of the server-sid…

surely you have a better example of your gripe than closing a GH issue on the logo design... the whole conversation on your end seems petty and toxic, at first glance.

Post by fwsgonzo » Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 9:31 PM UTC

whizzter wrote: post #28

fwsgonzo wrote: post #13

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I don't completely understand your second point there, because I'm not necessarily talking about full-system emulation. Just userspace emulation. So, why can't RISC-V be a sandbox? It's just loading a normal ELF into a virtual memory. The first point is news to me, but I suppose you can build anything you want in an open ISA too. It looks like each object is like a shared object with an import and export table that c…

Had an idea of trying to "script" things for games, the idea was to use a the WASM backend of a regular C/C++ compiler to generate code that could be loaded dynamically and share structures (ignoring sandbox for this) so that testing could be done seamlessly, sadly WASM seems to be 32bit for the time being (atleast for Clang, dunno about GCC but that has other issues), also looked at Risc-V and missing export/import…

    APICALL(api_math_smoothstep)
    {
        auto [edge0, edge1, x] = machine.sysargs  ();
        x = std::clamp((x - edge0) / (edge1 - edge0), 0.0f, 1.0f);
        machine.cpu.registers().getfl(10).set_float(x * x * (3 - 2 * x));
        return 0;
    }