The Browser is the Computer (Wasm I/O)

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r + The Browser is the Computer Daniel Lopez Angel De Miguel

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About us

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Washington Posh 1995/10/11 99c The network is the computer Thin clients, the new norm Dot-com is not a bubble Reputed economist conﬁrms it Amazon rocks! Read the opinion of our Director The early days

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The original thin client

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2024

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Where the World is going Laptop computers increasingly cheaper and powerful … and your phone, and your tablet! Browser APIs increasingly capable Improved ﬁlesystem access, WebGPU, networking WebAssembly continues to improve Garbage Collection, Memory64, JSPI, multi-threading, etc. Increased complexity of development environments Languages, tools, services, etc.

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What is a server? Compute Networking Storage Ecosystem

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Compute Browser-native Wasm apps and components Performance Compatibility Syscall Emulation Emscripten, WALI, and WebVM Hardware Emulation V86, QEMU-Wasm, etc. Wasm Syscalls Hardware

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Networking External Communication Web Native Fetch WebSocket Proxy VPN tunneling Internal Communication Direct communication Web Streams Emulated TCP/IP stack

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Storage FileSystem Access API Access user ﬁlesystem (read / write) FileSystem Access API Origin Private FileSystem A dedicated folder per origin OPFS In-Memory Persistence Browser Storage ZenFS EmscriptenFS

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Ecosystem Meet people where they are

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Putting everything together Compute Networking Storage Ecosystem Compute Networking Storage Ecosystem

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Endor.dev ENDOR Demo time!

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Use cases Isolated ephemeral environments you can use Don't be afraid to break things! Zero-installation environments Stop asking people to install software to run your project Learning Give your students an environment they can work with Development From cloning to contribution without installing a single package

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What's next? More languages and services 64 bit support Persistence Designing and sharing complex environments

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References https://github.com/copy/v86/ v86 https://emscripten.org/ Emscripten https://github.com/ktock/qemu-wasm/ QEMU-Wasm https://github.com/chipmk/tcpip.js tcpip.js https://webvm.io/ WebVM https://github.com/arjunr2/WALI/ WALI https://zenfs.dev/ ZenFS https://www.exaequos.com/ ExaequOS https://howfuguismybrowser.dev/ Project Fugu

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Thank you! endor.dev @endorhq