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Mozilla partners with Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to take WebAssembly beyond the browser – TechCrunch
Mozilla, Intel, Red Hat and Fastly today announced the launch of the Bytecode Alliance, a new open-source group that focuses on “creating new software foundations, building on standards such as WebAssembly and WebAssembly System Interface (WASI).”
Mozilla has long championed WebAssembly, the open standard that allows browsers to execute compiled programs in the browser. This allows developers to write their applications in languages like C, C++ and Rust and have those programs execute at native speed, all without having to rely on JavaScript, which would take much longer to parse and execute, especially on mobile devices.
[...] The mission of this new group goes beyond the browser, though. It wants to establish “a capable, secure platform that allows application developers and service providers to confidently run untrusted code, on any infrastructure, for any operating system or device, leveraging decades of experience doing so inside web browsers.” The argument here is that there is plenty of potential for WebAssembly outside of the browser because it allows untrusted code components to interact with trusted code inside of a sandboxed environment. Indeed, a Mozilla spokesperson noted that WebAssembly has generated more interest from businesses that are interested in this use case than from the traditional application developers and web technologists. Hence this new alliance.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Wednesday November 13 2019, @12:44PM (2 children)
hey I think you are a real person who is not a shill, I can tell because you are demonstrating the ability to think outside of a paper bag.
To me, this looks like they are trying to completely bastardize the concept behind Qubes.
Not unlike how Libra tried lol to bastardrize bitcoin.
'here try our totally fucked corporate version made by the cia, but with marketing and built by entities less than 0 degrees removed from spy agencies.'
At this point they are confident apparently that people like us will be ignored, they control all of the major platforms normies use, through which people like us appear to be utter loons.
That they can even get 100 programmers to work for mozilla and eat this shit up without asking questions is astounding to me, makes me wonder if they have working androids who can code anything but have their skepticism removed genetically.
Or they could be aliens, who are going to eat our brains once their plans are complete, or who knows what, but I can't believe there are this many remaining high iq/low discernment human beings on our planet who trust red hat intel and mozilla at all whatsoever.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday November 14 2019, @05:05PM (1 child)
There will never be a shortage of smartasses that want a ferrari out their IT job.
If you think about all the unreasonable and unfriendly things happening in IT between hardware software and infrastructure, the IT guy coding things to simplify his and his peers life is the exception.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday November 14 2019, @10:02PM
Exactly, my viewpoint is underrepresented, I think unfairly, so I am being loud.
One of the main points to everything I am doing right now is to advise the mercenary bitchin camero drivers that the world he/per gets to spend his money in, with babes and vegas and playstation, will not be there any more if the entire system degrades into totalitarianism and ecocide.
How can they otherwise not see they are building a completely untrustworthy system that will offer no intellectual autonomy?
Do they know they are building skynet/borg tech? Do they think this will benefit them somehow in their old age?