Bill Caputo<p>🤔 hmm, now what does this remind me of:<br> <br>"By standardizing APIs for <a href="https://discuss.systems/tags/WebAssembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebAssembly</span></a>, <a href="https://discuss.systems/tags/WASI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WASI</span></a> provides a way to compose software written in different languages—without costly and clunky interface systems like HTTP-based microservices." (<a href="https://wasi.dev" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wasi.dev</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>)</p><p>Oh yeah, here it is:</p><p>"The Infinite Improbability Drive was a wonderful new method of crossing interstellar distances in a mere nothingth of a second, without tedious mucking about in hyperspace"... </p><p>and:</p><p>..."The Bistromathic Drive is a wonderful new method of crossing vast interstellar distances without all the dangerous mucking about with Improbability Factors."</p><p>(and you thought I was gonna mention <a href="https://discuss.systems/tags/Java" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Java</span></a> and Jini!)</p><p>(h/t to Douglas Adams for his enduring insight into human behavior, and the <a href="https://discuss.systems/tags/wasm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wasm</span></a> / <a href="https://discuss.systems/tags/wasi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wasi</span></a> folks for doing god's work!)</p>