What WebAssembly can learn from JAVA’s history - Ep5 -WebAssembly Unleashed

In this special episode two of our hosts were able to sit down with F5’s Gilad Bracha to discuss what WebAssembly can learn based on Bracha’s experience with JAVA. Listen in to find out whether or not Wasm can deliver on “write once, run anywhere”, what shadows may be on the horizon, what JAVA did right that Wasm can learn from, and so much more! Chapters: 2:20 – Early days of JAVA Specification 4:46 – Class loaders and JAVA verifier 5:20 – Compiler Engines 7:12 – Promise of “Write once, run anywhere” 9:55 – JAVA’s great opportunity 11:44 – Battle for runtime 13:55 – Wasm 1.0 and Wasm approach 14:55 – JAVA approach 16:38 – Multiple runtimes 18:25 – Shadows on the horizon 20:17 – Complaints from Wasm implementors 24:46 – Wasm GC proposal 27:06 – What did JAVA do right that Wasm can learn from? For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites: Blogs - https://www.f5.com/company/octo Reports - https://www.f5.com/services/resources/reports Meet Your Hosts: Joel Moses | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelmoses/ | https://community.f5.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/398372 Oscar Spencer | https://twitter.com/oscar_spen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/ Matthew Yacobucci | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/