Building Graphical Applications with Wasmer and WASI
MEDIUM.COM
WebAssembly modules have no built in I/O capabilities, they cannot access the filesystem, open sockets or render to the screen. In order to do anything useful, a wasm module must communicate with, and direct its host (i.e. the browser for web embedding) to perform I/O on its behalf. The wasmer team are looking to drive WebAssembly adoption, and want to make I/O easier - which is why they have created I/O devices, a ‘standard’ interface for wasm modules which allows them to render to the screen.
WebAssembly: Key to a high-performance web, or ideal for malware?
THEREGISTER.CO.UK
There has been a lot of negative press around WebAssembly since a study reported that the majority of websites they analysed used the technology for malicious purposes. This article is a brief interview with Andreas Rossberg, one of the creators of WebAssembly, where he addresses these concerns.
Announcing Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings
MICROSOFT.COM
Yet more Blazor news! This blog post announces a new experimental project to enable native mobile app development with Blazor. Microsoft already has a framework for creating cross-platform native mobile application using Xamarin. This experimental project combines the two.
How to Use WebAssembly to Transform Images Without a Server
MEDIUM.COM
A brief but very practical and useful blog post, using a WebAssembly build of ImageMagick, avoiding the need to send images to a server in order to apply transformations.