From Wazero to Wazhero: An Introduction to Wazero for Gophers and Other Species – Edoardo Vacchi, Tetrate.io
Are you a gopher or a crab? A wyvern or a penguin? This talk will be equally relevant to you, regardless of your species! Learn more about wazero runtime, how it may help you, and how the maintainers strive to be a good citizen of the wider Wasm ecosystem while realizing a fast and efficient runtime that works great with the Go toolchain!
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You are a Gopher. You wake up confused. It looks like you are in a Cloud. You don’t remember how you got there.
LOOK AROUND
There are several large Containers, and a few tiny packages with a label: “Some (Web)Assembly Required.”
EXAMINE WASM
You are excited to find several WebAssembly runtimes. You find that it is easy to plug them into your Go project. There is only one catch: most of them are meant for a different language runtime.
CGO LEFT
Your cross-platform build becomes slow and compromised, you can no longer rely on all the features of your runtime, your performance becomes less predictable. You retire to your burrow and hide in shame.
GAME OVER.
Would you like to play again and try wazero: the zero-dependency WebAssembly runtime for Go?
