The philosopher who believes in Web Assembly (Ep. 560)
For this episode, we talked with Matt Butcher, CEO at Fermyon Technologies, about distributed computing, the long-term promise of WebAssembly, and the HR mix-up that switched his career from lawn care to computer programming.
Eira May
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For this episode, we talked with Matt Butcher, CEO at Fermyon Technologies, about distributed computing, the long-term promise of WebAssembly, and the HR mix-up that switched his career from lawn care to computer programming.
Episode notes:
Fermyon offers serverless cloud computing. Spin is their developer tool for building WebAssembly microservices and web applications; check it out on GitHub.
Like past podcast guest David Hsu of Retool (and yours truly), Matt earned a degree in the humanities before deciding to prioritize his “side gig” in tech.
Follow Fermyon on GitHub. Matt is on LinkedIn.
Shoutout to Lifeboat badge winner keineahnung2345 for saving Hamming distance between two strings in Python from the dustbin of time.
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3 Comments
Really enjoyed this episode. Matt’s enthusiasm is infectious, and he comes across as having a great depth of knowledge and history in this area. Loved his origin story too! Good stuff.
WebAssembly is the exact opposite of a free and open internet and we need to stay far far away from it. The user has no idea of what code they are running on a web page and it is not auditable. Normal JS is. Running arbitrary code is never a good idea and leads to malicious code in short order. Just say no to WebAssembly.
Your point might valid but the podcast is talking about WebAssembly running on the server not the browser