The Bytecode Alliance: Building a secure, composable future for WebAssembly
I'm one of the folks working with the Alliance, and I'm incredibly excited about WebAssembly outside the browser. Happy to answer questions.<p>Imagine extensions for applications or databases, written in any language you want, with no ability to exfiltrate data. Imagine supporting a safe plugin API that isn't just for C and languages that FFI to C, but works natively with safe datatypes.<p>Today, if you want to be extensible, you typically expose a C API for people to link to, or you embed a specific language like Lua or Python. Imagine embedding a WebAssembly runtime like wasmtime, and telling people they can write their extensions in any language they want.