Rust

🥳 Contribute to the WasmEdge Project via the CNCF LFX Mentorship Summer Term 2022

LFX mentorship Summer(similar to GSoC) is coming. Contribute to the WasmEdge project. Make your mark in Open Source, and earn a stipend of $3000 to $6600! Click here to learn about sonder-joker's journey on WasmEdge LFX mentorship。 A brief introduction of WasmEdge WasmEdge is a cloud-native WebAssembly runtime hosted by the CNCF. It is widely used in modern web application architectures (Isomorphic & Jamstack applications), microservices on the edge cloud, serverless SaaS APIs, embedded functions, smart contracts, and smart devices.…

🤖 CNCF LFX Mentorship: From knowing nothing about cryptography to implementing wasi-crypto in WasmEdge

Author: sonder-joker WasmEdge is selected for GSoC 2022 through LFX Mentorship. Application open until 19th April, 2022. Come apply now. I'm a BSc software engineering student who likes open-source, software infrastructure, and challenging work. I applied for the WasmEdge CNCF LFX Mentorship Fall 2021 to support the WASI-Crypto proposal. The reason why I chose this project was that I wanted to participate in the development of an open-source project for some challenging work.…

😎 WasmEdge 0.9.1 is released! Better networking support, Android support, better developer experience, and more.

WasmEdge 0.9.1 is released! This release features integrated high-performance networking, JavaScript streaming SSR and Fetch API support, a new bindgen framework, Android and OpenHarmony OS support, expanded Kubernetes support, and improved memory management. WebAssembly extensions Streaming SSR functions Android and OpenHarmony Kubernetes Bug fixes and performance enhancements WebAssembly extensions WasmEdge aims to support all standard and optional standard WebAssembly extension proposals. It also supports non-standard and experimental extensions that are important to cloud-native use cases, such as networking and data passing.…

🤖 Contribute to the WasmEdge Project via the CNCF LFX Mentorship Spring Term 2022

Contribute to the WasmEdge project. Make your mark in Open Source, and earn a stipend of $3000 to $6600! WasmEdge is a cloud-native WebAssembly runtime hosted by the CNCF. It is widely used in edge computing, automotive, Jamstack, serverless, SaaS, service mesh, and even blockchain applications. WasmEdge is written in C++, and has SDKs for C/C++, Rust, Golang, and JavaScript. We welcome all types of contributions — code, docs, integrations, specs, examples!…

eBPF and WebAssembly: whose VM reigns supreme?

The two hottest lightweight code execution sandboxes / VMs in the cloud-native world today are eBPF and WebAssembly. They both run high-performance bytecode programs compiled from C, C++, and Rust. The biggest difference, however, is that eBPF runs inside the Linux kernel while WebAssembly runs in the user space. eBPF has some programming restrictions that makes it safe for kernel use cases (eg no infinite loops). But that also means that eBPF is Turing incomplete.…

Multiple Remotely Based Job Openings

Second State‘s open source WebAssembly runtime WasmEdge has been hosted as a sandbox project by CNCF under the Linux Foundation, the only Wasm runtime at CNCF. Its use cases include serverless apps, embedded functions, microservices, smart contracts, and IoT devices. Two decades ago, we witnessed the migration of Java from the browser to the server side. A decade ago, we saw the migration of JavaScript from the browser to the server.…

A lightweight, safe, portable, and high-performance runtime for Dapr

originally published on infoQ.com Key takeaways: Dapr is a versatile framework for building microservices. WebAssembly VMs, such as WasmEdge, provide high-performance and secure runtimes for microservice applications. WebAssembly-based microservices can be written in a number of programming languages, including Rust, C/C++, Swift, and JavaScript. WebAssembly programs are embedded into Dapr sidecar applications, and hence can be portable and agnostic to the Dapr host environment. The WasmEdge SDK provides an easy way to build microservices for Tensorflow inference.…

Calling native functions from JavaScript

WasmEdge enables JavaScript to call native functions in shared libraries. In my previous articles, I explained why and how to run JavaScript programs in a WebAssembly sandbox. I also discussed how to create custom JavaScript APIs for WasmEdge using Rust. However, in order to fully access the underlying system's OS and hardware features, we sometimes need to create JavaScript APIs for C-based native functions. That is, when a JavaScript program calls the pre-defined function, WasmEdge will pass it to a native shared library on the OS for execution.…

Creating high-performance JavaScript APIs using Rust

WasmEdge brings together Rust’s performance and JavaScript’s ease of use In my previous article, I discussed how to embed JavaScript code into a Rust program. However, for JavaScript developers, the need is often the opposite – to incorporate Rust functions into JavaScript APIs. That enables developers to write programs in “pure JavaScript” and yet still take advantage of the high performance Rust functions. With the WasmEdge Runtime, you can do exactly that.…

Incorporating JavaScript into a Rust app

WasmEdge brings together Rust’s performance and JavaScript’s ease of use In my previous article, I discussed how to run JavaScript programs in a WebAssembly sandbox. The WasmEdge runtime provides a lightweight, high-performance, and OCI compliant “container” for cloud-native JavaScript applications. However, JavaScript is a “slow” language. The reason to use JavaScript is mostly due to its ease of use and developer productivity, especially for beginner developers. WebAssembly, on the other hand, is capable of running high-performance applications written in languages such as Rust.…