WASI preview 3: threads and async in WebAssembly

WASI 0.3, also known as preview 3, was ratified on June 11, 2026, adding native asynchronous concurrency to the WebAssembly component model through streams, futures, and async functions. It fixes old fragmentation across languages and runtimes, enables real composition between Wasm services, and paves the way for cooperative threads planned in upcoming 0.3.x releases.

January 21, 2025 4 min 243 4.4

Software Development

Rust 1.75 and 1.76: Improvements Noticeable Daily

Rust 1.75 stabilises async fn in traits, return-position impl Trait, and several byte-level pointer methods such as byte_add. Rust 1.76 adds an ABI guarantee between char and u32, plus convenience utilities like Result::inspect and type_name_of_val. Two releases that add real ergonomics without flashy gestures.

November 7, 2024 6 min 223 4.3