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Improving Webassembly and Its Tooling -- Q&A with Wasmtime’s Nick Fitzgerald
WebAssembly, now a web standard, aims to grow beyond the browser. Wasm runtimes are implementing proposals to achieve this vision. Fitzgerald tells us about his recent work on WebAssembly tooling and his implementation of reference types in the Wasmtime WebAssembly runtime -- a prelude to interface types and easy interoperation between Wasm and a host language.
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Level Up with WebAssembly - Book Review and Q&A
WebAssembly is a difficult-to-learn technological stack, with rough edges and a fast-moving target. Porting existing software to WebAssembly and the web remains a complex endeavor. Level Up With WebAssembly strives to give a practitioner perspective to porting C/C++ software to browsers. The book is highly practical and includes recipes to successfully convert software to the web.
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Programming Microcontrollers with JavaScript -- Q&A with Peter Hoddie and Lizzie Prader
JavaScript developers can now write IoT software on a large range of devices, including low-specs micro-controllers with as little as 32KB of memory. As the TC53 committee and companies like Moddable create standards and software for the interoperability of heterogeneous hardware, IoT companies may tap in a large pool of JavaScript developers, and leverage the productivity of a scripting language.
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WebAssembly at Sentry - Q&A with Armin Ronacher
Sentry sees great potential in WebAssembly and uses it internally in the context of its ingestion system. However, further usage is hampered by the limited capabilities of WebAssembly when debugging in production. While proposals exist to make the DWARF standard debugging format work with Wasm, more work and better tooling are necessary. InfoQ interviews Sentry's Armin Ronacher.
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InfoQ's 2019, and Software Predictions for 2020
We take a look back at what we saw on InfoQ in 2019, and think about what the next year might bring.
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Porting a Desktop Game Editor to the Browser with WebAssembly
Florian Rival, software engineer at Google and creator of the GDevelop game editor, discusses the lessons learnt from porting a native desktop game editor to the browser with WebAssembly. InfoQ interviewed Rival on the technical challenges encountered, the benefits derived from the port, and tips for developers thinking about porting desktop applications with WebAssembly.
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The Why, How, and What of Three Industry-Oriented IoT Projects: Highlights from WebExpo 2019
Tomáš Morava, CFO and co-founder at Hardwario, recently presented at WebExpo 2019 in Prague three practical, industry-oriented applications of IoT in the automotive and agriculture sectors. Morava illustrated at length in an interview with InfoQ how deploying the Internet of Things in the industry need not be complicated nor expensive.
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Q&A on the Book The Driver in the Driverless Car
The book The Driver in the Driverless Car by Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever explores how technology is changing faster and faster, and what impact that can have on the future of our society. It aims to help frame decisions and thinking about rapidly developing technologies. Salkever and Wadhwa cover a wide variety of technologies, including robotics, AI, quantum computing, and driverless cars.
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The Impact and Ethics of Conversational Artificial Intelligence
Improvements in natural language understanding and our changing relationship means we can use chatbots in ways we couldn’t before - both to augment human conversation and support, or indeed, to replace it. Those working in the software industry must understand and take responsibility for how we use Conversational AI and our users' data.
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Exploring HyperLedger: Experience in Being a Framework Early Adopter
Some time ago OpenGift explored deploying a HyperLedger-based blockchain within a production environment. This article presents a story of our attempts to integrate it and the problems we encountered.
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Two Sides of a Coin: Blockchain, Ethics and Human Rights
Blockchain is, for many people, still synonymous with cryptocurrencies and financial applications, but it has enormous potential as a tool for the common good. This article explores whether blockchain could help good causes and discusses whether the lessons from ethics could benefit the blockchain community.
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Understanding Blockchain Basics and Use Cases
We discuss the two main types of blockchain solution, and some of the major variants deployed today. Use cases for the different solutions are also explored.