[noahdesu]

We've added Lua scripting into the Ceph distributed object storage system that lets you remotely compute on objects, or create I/O interfaces with new semantics [0]. I've been excited about WebAssembly as a replacement since I learned about it simply because LuaJIT can be a bit of a pain, and because the cross-compiling toolchains already exist that let me get a lot more existing code into a form that can be shipped off to run remotely.

[0]: https://nwat.xyz/blog/2018/03/13/video-of-my-talk-at-lua-wor...