WebAssembly and Blockchain Happenings

I am jazzed by the appearance of CraneLift and WASMTime.

CraneLift is a JIT webassembly compiler, and WASMTime, which is a complete sandboxed environment. However, it appears to be for Non-Web Embedding. Which is what I've been waiting for.

CraneLift will probably be the basis of our toolchain. 

There's also a nuget module for WASMTime that can be called from .net (though I might have to change all my external modules back again to the latest .net core rather than framework 4.8). This might be much simpler than trying to run V8 (via Microsoft ClearScript) -- and much more portable. I also don't feel any great loss from the not having a Javascript environment.

There apparently is a gRPC/protobuf implementation now for  Rust (if the first emissaries need to be written in Rust).

I'm making slow (very-slow) steady progress with the Emissary managers. The browser launches them and they start to do their startup handshakes. However, the next steps, which is mostly being able to log into the various Kudo Servers is going to take some effort. I have the stubs of the new Kudo Authentication engine started.

CraneLift might also let me build server side emissary modules.

I guess I'm going to have to learn Rust after all.


Starting to look at blockchain infrastructure like Corda. The true functioning of the Kudo server is basically a blockchain engine, or at least what it does would benefit from a blockchain journal. A true Kudo (like a game level or a certification) would benefit from blockchain auditing. Nothing much more useless than a blockchain which has an audience of one (like a stand alone system). It's only benefit is being shared far and wide.

I don't think Corda is .net (may be Java/Kotlin). But, it dockerizable, and has an API we can call.