Fast, Secure, Language-Agnostic Policy Engine Using Wasm
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The big idea: policies shouldn’t be locked into a single DSL. With WebAssembly, we can bring speed, security, and flexibility to policy evaluation—letting developers write policies in the languages they already know (Go, Rust, TypeScript, and more).
It’s a step toward making DevSecOps more practical and developer-friendly. Would love your thoughts!
Red about it at: https://chainloop.dev/blog/introducing-webassembly-policy-engines
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The author explores using WebAssembly to create a fast, secure, and language-agnostic policy engine, making DevSecOps more practical and developer-friendly, and shares their thoughts in a blog post.
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What languages would you say are viable options in practice today to match rego(language and engine) functionality?