Mozilla partners with Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to take WebAssembly beyond the browser

guest · Nov 12, 2019

Mozilla partners with Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to take WebAssembly beyond the browser
November 12, 2019
https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/12/m...astly-to-take-webassembly-beyond-the-browser/

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.
Today, support for WebAssembly is part of all of the major browser engines. Companies like Figma and Autodesk have experimented with it or are using it in production.

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.
When Mozilla and others launched the WebAssembly format, Microsoft and Google were also part of that group. They are not members of the new Bytecode Alliance, though.

“WebAssembly is changing the web, but we believe WebAssembly can play an even bigger role in the software ecosystem as it continues to expand beyond browsers,” explained Luke Wagner, Distinguished Engineer at Mozilla and co-creator of WebAssembly.
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Mozilla: New Bytecode Alliance Brings the Security, Ubiquity, and Interoperability of the Web to the World of Pervasive Computing

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