The promise of being able to use any library from any language is really quite compelling, and that's what the WASM component model is about for me. It's pretty sad to say this amount of hate TBH
> The promise of being able to use any library from any language is really quite compelling, and that's what the WASM component model is about for me.
I'm excited for having extremely lightweight sandboxed. WASI enables having a runtime with a bunch of loaded libraries. You can start a very small script & link in the already loaded modules on the fly, in a very secure fashion.
It's be like having an isolate-oer-requesf model. Super secure, but with fantastically low overhead. Ideally instead of having a huge app server, a front end router would be picking which specific actions to run.
The ability to spin up a cast number of very lightweight secure processes and have them communicating with each other is fascinating. App servers as we build them are ghastly complicated swiss army knives, and being able to have something like a "serverless"/lambda architecture where we can narrow the scope down & really think about what has to be in a given request handling's process could be a big operational boon, if we're willing to once more venture away from the comforting warmth of the monolith that folks love huddling up next to.
As usual though hope & possibility is speculative & nuanced & diverse, and disbelief & disgust is blanket & unifying. I have no clue how I'm still so shocked to see negativity upvoted, positivity out down upon, after it happening so many times but I keep being surprised how strongly negativity reigns. And how fiercely & widely it downvotes! There's just something about the disbelievers & skeptics that they have to smash the downvote, can't abide possibility or excitement; there's never any wait and see, never any maybe about it. Just doom & gloom on and on.
pjmlp|1 year ago
Many of us (haters), are old timers seating on the saloon bench seeing yet another slew of gold diggers arrive full of enthusiasm into town.
This time is going to be different, and it will take over the world (TM).
jauntywundrkind|1 year ago
I'm excited for having extremely lightweight sandboxed. WASI enables having a runtime with a bunch of loaded libraries. You can start a very small script & link in the already loaded modules on the fly, in a very secure fashion.
It's be like having an isolate-oer-requesf model. Super secure, but with fantastically low overhead. Ideally instead of having a huge app server, a front end router would be picking which specific actions to run.
The ability to spin up a cast number of very lightweight secure processes and have them communicating with each other is fascinating. App servers as we build them are ghastly complicated swiss army knives, and being able to have something like a "serverless"/lambda architecture where we can narrow the scope down & really think about what has to be in a given request handling's process could be a big operational boon, if we're willing to once more venture away from the comforting warmth of the monolith that folks love huddling up next to.
As usual though hope & possibility is speculative & nuanced & diverse, and disbelief & disgust is blanket & unifying. I have no clue how I'm still so shocked to see negativity upvoted, positivity out down upon, after it happening so many times but I keep being surprised how strongly negativity reigns. And how fiercely & widely it downvotes! There's just something about the disbelievers & skeptics that they have to smash the downvote, can't abide possibility or excitement; there's never any wait and see, never any maybe about it. Just doom & gloom on and on.