Memory Safe Native Languages and WASM

QCon London 2025

Track

Memory Safe Native Languages and WASM

Tuesday 8 April · 6 sessions, 50 minutes each

About the track

Speed and memory safety do not need to be mutually exclusive. With modern languages that compile to native code, it's possible to write efficient code, both in terms of clock cycles as well as memory usage. We'll look at the state of modern languages in the industry.

Another approach to ensure memory safety is isolation, a particular strength of WebAssembly. WebAssembly is increasingly used to run code in low overhead sandboxes that don't incur the costs of other sandboxing methods while still offering strong isolation. We'll look at the state of WebAssembly for this purpose as well as real world uses.

Sessions in this track

Tuesday 8 April. 6 sessions per track, chosen and introduced by the Track Host.

10:35 Windsor (5th Fl.) Session Startup Questioning Convention: C# as a Shortcut to Startup Velocity Sam Cox Co-Founder & CTO @Tracebit, Building Security Canaries at Scale 11:45 Windsor (5th Fl.) Session services Expanding Swift from Apps to Services Cory Benfield Senior Software Engineer Doing Swift on Server @Apple 13:35 Churchill (Ground Fl.) Session WASM WASM in the Enterprise: Secure, Portable, and Ready for Business Andrea Peruffo Open Source Addicted Software Developer @RedHat, Passionate About Distributed Systems, Compilers, Infrastructure and Everything In Between 14:45 Mountbatten (6th Fl.) Session WebAssembly How WebAssembly Components Enable Safe and Portable Software Extensions Alex Radovici Operating Systems & Compilers PhD, Author of "Getting Started with Secure Embedded Systems" and Core Contributor of Tock OS 15:55 Rutherford (4th Fl.) Unconference Unconference: Memory Safe Native Languages and WASM 17:05 Mountbatten (6th Fl.) Session WASM Components are a FaaS' Best Friend Laurent Doguin Director Developer Relations & Strategy @couchbase, Previously Developer Advocate @Clever Cloud and @Nuxeo
76% senior dev or higher
1:11 speaker ratio
60+ practitioners

QCon London 2025 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.

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