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Prime Video Uses WebAssembly

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Re: Prime Video Uses WebAssembly

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Post by rappatic »

It's nice to see a big company like Amazon using Wasm in something that actually sees the light of production (and in something that's used by so many people). I always see tech giants supporting or contributing to newer technologies like Wasm without really using them in important applications.

Re: Prime Video Uses WebAssembly

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Post by dwmbt »

first time i've seen practical wasm system design and the transition written about. that being said, i would really love a deeper dive. the graphics were also insightful -- cheers, alexandru

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Post by dwmbt »

rappatic wrote: post #2

It's nice to see a big company like Amazon using Wasm in something that actually sees the light of production (and in something that's used by so many people). I always see tech giants supporting or contributing to newer technologies like Wasm without really using them in important applications.

as of late last year - of the large tech companies - it seems that amazon and microsoft might be the biggest Rust (in prod) evangelists. they basically swiped all the mozilla rust devs that were laid off and made their own dedicated Rust teams. so far, this has been good for the ecosystem as they continue to contribute to the community but i know there's a lot of community members that feel uneasy about those moves. here's to hoping the worries amount to nothing :)

Re: Prime Video Uses WebAssembly

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Post by RcouF1uZ4gsC »

Language success is in large parts driven by what system adopts that language.

Objective-C’s success was driven by iOS.

C’s success was driven by Unix.

C++’s early success was driven in large part by 90’s GUI frameworks ( MDC, OWL, Qt, etc.

I think Wasm is shaping up to be huge in that you can safely run, high performance code across multiple operating systems/CPU’s. Of all the languages, I think Rust has the best WASM tooling, and the 2020’s may end up being the WASM/Rust decade.

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Post by nojito »

RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #5

Language success is in large parts driven by what system adopts that language. Objective-C’s success was driven by iOS. C’s success was driven by Unix. C++’s early success was driven in large part by 90’s GUI frameworks ( MDC, OWL, Qt, etc. I think Wasm is shaping up to be huge in that you can safely run, high performance code across multiple operating systems/CPU’s. Of all the languages, I think Rust has the best WA…

> I think Rust has the best WASM tooling, and the 2020’s may end up being the WASM/Rust decade.

Still pales in comparison to .NET

Re: Prime Video Uses WebAssembly

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Post by miohtama »

nojito wrote: post #7
RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #5

Language success is in large parts driven by what system adopts that language. Objective-C’s success was driven by iOS. C’s success was driven by Unix. C++’s early success was driven in large part by 90’s GUI frameworks ( MDC, OWL, Qt, etc. I think Wasm is shaping up to be huge in that you can safely run, high performance code across multiple operating systems/CPU’s. Of all the languages, I think Rust has the best WA…

> I think Rust has the best WASM tooling, and the 2020’s may end up being the WASM/Rust decade. Still pales in comparison to .NET

Look to the future, not to the past.

Re: Prime Video Uses WebAssembly

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Post by easton »

miohtama wrote: post #9
nojito wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I think Rust has the best WASM tooling, and the 2020’s may end up being the WASM/Rust decade. Still pales in comparison to .NET

Look to the future, not to the past.

I mean, Microsoft seems to be making it clear that the replacement for old-school ASP.NET formsy apps to be Blazor, which is C# you write that runs in the browser via WASM. Makes making SPAs easier if that’s your stack.

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blaz...

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