The Promise and Pitfalls of WebAssembly: Perspectives from the Industry
As JavaScript has been criticized for performance and security issues in web applications, WebAssembly (Wasm) was proposed in 2017 and is regarded as the complementation for JavaScript. Due to its advantages like compact-size, native-like speed, and portability, Wasm binaries are gradually used as the compilation target for industrial projects in other high-level programming languages and are responsible for computation-intensive tasks in browsers, e.g., 3D graphic rendering and video decoding. Intuitively, characterizing in-the-wild adopted Wasm binaries from different perspectives, like their metadata, relation with source programming language, existence of security threats, and practical purpose, is the prerequisite before delving deeper into the Wasm ecosystem and beneficial to its roadmap selection. However, currently, there is no work that conducts a large-scale measurement study on in-the-wild adopted Wasm binaries. To fill this gap, we collect the largest-ever dataset to the best of our knowledge, and characterize the status quo of them from industry perspectives. According to the different roles of people engaging in the community, i.e., web developers, Wasm maintainers, and researchers, we reorganized our findings to suggestions and best practices for them accordingly. We believe this work can shed light on the future direction of the web and Wasm.
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10:30 - 12:30 | Library and Product LineIndustry Papers / Journal First / Ideas, Visions and Reflections / Demonstrations / Research Papers at Pirsenteret 150 Chair(s): Andrea Arcuri Kristiania University of Applied Sciences | ||
10:30 10mTalk | Drop the Golden Apples: Identifying Third-Party Reuse by DB-Less Software Composition Analysis Ideas, Visions and Reflections Lyuye Zhang Nanyang Technological University, Chengwei Liu Nanyang Technological University, Wu Jiahui , Shiyang Zhang Tianjin University, CHENGYUE LIU , Zhengzi Xu Imperial Global Singapore, Sen Chen Nankai University, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University | ||
10:40 20mTalk | Quantifying the benefits of code hints for refactoring deprecated Java APIs Industry Papers Cristina David University of Bristol, Pascal Kesseli Meta, Daniel Kroening Amazon, Hanliang Zhang University of Bristol | ||
11:00 20mTalk | Mapping APIs in Dynamic-typed Programs by Leveraging Transfer Learning Journal First Zhenfei Huang Tianjin University, Junjie Chen Tianjin University, Jiajun Jiang Tianjin University, Yihua Liang Tianjin University, Hanmo You Tianjin University, Fengjie Li Tianjin University | ||
11:20 10mTalk | Dirty-Waters: Detecting Software Supply Chain Smells Demonstrations Raphina Liu KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sofia Bobadilla KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Benoit Baudry KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Martin Monperrus KTH Royal Institute of Technology | ||
11:30 10mTalk | Pursuit of Automotive Software Variant Reduction for Engineering Simplicity Industry Papers Vard Antinyan Volvo Car Group | ||
11:40 20mTalk | Software Product Line Engineering via Software Transplantation Journal First Leandro Oliveira de Souza Federal Institute of Bahia, Irecê, Bahia, Brazil, Eduardo Almeida , Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, Earl T. Barr University College London, Justyna Petke University College London | ||
12:00 10mTalk | Beyond Software Families: Community-Driven Variability Ideas, Visions and Reflections Roman Bögli University of Bern, Alexander Boll University of Bern, Alexander Schultheiß Paderborn University, Timo Kehrer University of Bern Pre-print | ||
12:10 20mTalk | The Promise and Pitfalls of WebAssembly: Perspectives from the Industry Industry Papers Ningyu He Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Shangtong Cao Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Haoyu Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Yao Guo Peking University, Xiapu Luo Hong Kong Polytechnic University | ||
This room is located outside Clarion Hotel
This room is located in the Pirsenteret (The Pier Center) convention center. It is just outside the hotel, on the back, towards the fjord.
You should be able to go through the emergency exit at Clarion, just on the side of the Cosmos 3 wing, which will be bring you close to Pirsenteret.
The entrance to the center is from here:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/dU3qH6kAimXGBNHe7
Once inside, go all straight and you will find signage to reach the room. The room is known as room 150 inside the center.