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Wasmer — Universal binaries powered by WebAssembly (Wasm)

Wasmer is a standalone JIT WebAssembly runtime with an aim to be fully compatible with Emscripten, Rust, and Go. Check the roadmap and tune in to a future episode of The Changelog with Syrus Akbary, the creator of Wasmer.

Install

curl https://get.wasmer.io -sSfL | sh

Run

wasmer run nginx.wasm

Enjoy

Running Nginx on localhost:8080
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Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #320

Venture capital meets commercial OSS

Joseph Jacks, the Founder and General Partner of OSS Capital joined the show to share his plans for funding the future generation of commercial open source software based companies. This is a growing landscape of $100M+ revenue companies ~13 years in the making that’s just now getting serious early attention and institutional backing — and we talk through many of those details with Joseph.

We cover the whys and hows, why OSS now, deep details around licensing implications, and we speculate the types of open source software that makes sense for the types of investing Joseph and other plan to do.

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The $100M+ revenue commercial open source software company index

Have you seen this spreadsheet of open source software companies from Joseph Jacks? The criteria to be added to the sheet is; the company generates $100M+ revenue (recurring or not) OR generate the equivalent of $25M of revenue per quarter.

These companies have found a way to build a very large business around one or many open source software projects. Anyone on this index surprise you?

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