EuroSys 2025 Digest
13 papers selected. Empowering WebAssembly with Thin Kernel Interfaces Arjun Ramesh, Tianshu Huang, Ben L. Titzer, Anthony Rowe 0001 TL;DR — A new OS interface design exposes thin, capability-based kernel primitives directly to WebAssembly modules, eliminating the POSIX translation layer. Why notable — WebAssembly is increasingly used beyond the browser as a portable, sandboxed compute substrate; this work shows that rethinking the system interface from scratch yields significantly lower overhead and better safety properties than layering Wasm on top of POSIX. ...