[tschneidereit]

It's really the other way around: we joined Fastly because we knew it's a place where we could do this kind of work in the open.

None of the code involved here existed a year ago, and none of it was somehow forced to be open source. (Also, the code in these two repositories is in many ways the most boring part of this solution. See this blog post for an excellent overview of the more interesting parts: https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/making-javascript-run-...)

[NicoJuicy]

The article I linked too ( and the hn comments) in my original post seemed that fastly acquired the wasm team.

Sorry if I was mistaking.

[tschneidereit]

Oh, no worries at all!

While there was no acquisition involved, a whole group of folks working on WebAssembly at Mozilla (myself included) moved to Fastly last Fall. What I tried to emphasize is that instead of the projects at hand here being open source because they somehow had to be, we all joined Fastly because it's a place where this kind of project can be made open source (and be created in the first place!) :)