Rust, WebAssembly, and the future of Serverless

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Argues that Rust + WebAssembly move beyond browsers into serverless and edge, showing a concrete size win (a Fibonacci demo drops from 185 bytes to 62 bytes), explains tiny runtimes and capability-based sandboxing (called huazi in the transcript), points to real tooling and CDNs running wasm at the edge — CloudFlare Workers and Fastly’s terrarium — and says teams are shipping runnable wasm modules worldwide with small binaries and enforced permissions.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:24The Tweet
3. 1:35Rust
4. 9:22WebAssembly
5. 21:33Rust WebAssembly
6. 31:46Docker
7. 36:28Edge Computing

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