The Browser is the Computer!

Daniel Lopez - Independent / Angel De Miguel - Broadcom

Wasm has blurred the lines between servers and clients, allowing you to run full-stack development environments completely inside your browser. Thirty plus years ago, when the web started, only text and images were supported. Over time, it evolved to support programming. First was JavaScript and Java Applets, later on ActiveX and Flash. Today, WebAssembly and browser APIs allow you to interact with audio/video, filesystems and GPUs, securely and efficiently.

This talk explains how you can leverage Wasm and the browser to build the dream programming environment. You can instantly run any combination of language runtimes, databases and servers that you can share with your friends and teammates without having to worry about running and maintaining cloud infrastructure. We will discuss the OSS projects, technology choices, tradeoffs and hacks involved to make this possible, including demos!