WASI is developing a portable, sandboxed system API so you can run WebAssembly outside of a browser: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/03/standardizing-wasi-a-webassembly-system-interface/
WebAssembly has a ton of people doing interesting things, but I do feel there's some overlap with what the JVM planned to do.
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WebAssembly seems like a totally reasonable bytecode format, but I've not had many opportunities to use it so far.
Has wasm found its 'killer app' yet?
TIL Drupal has a credit system to give preferential treatment to people and organisations who contribute regularly! https://dri.es/solving-the-maker-taker-problem
One interesting consequence of the rise of LLMs: there's more demand for tools that handle untrusted input.
Arbitrary HTML+JS can be safely run in a browser. Lean can check an arbitrary proof.
These work really well with an LLM that can be wrong, but sometimes gives exactly what you want. Are there other tools in this family?