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Press releases and company information for journalists covering BrowserPod and Leaning Technologies.
- LEEDS, UK
Yarn embeds BrowserPod in its official v6 Playground
Yarn's Playground for version 6 installs a project's dependencies from the npm registry inside the visitor's own browser, with no container provisioned server-side.
- LEEDS, UK
BrowserPod 3.0 runs unmodified Rust applications in the browser
Leaning Technologies' client-side virtual machine now runs unmodified Rust applications in the browser, with ripgrep, starship and jj-vcs confirmed and most Rust command line software expected to work.
- LEEDS, UK
BrowserPod 2.0 adds bash, git and core Linux utilities
BrowserPod's system image gains a real bash shell, git and BusyBox utilities, built on a working implementation of fork() for WebAssembly. Python ships in preview.
- LEEDS, UK
BrowserPod 1.0 released, running untrusted code client-side at near-native speed
The first stable release of BrowserPod ships Node.js as its initial engine, with a virtual filesystem, process isolation and shareable URLs for development servers.
- LEEDS, UK
Leaning Technologies opens beta of BrowserPod, a client-side virtual machine running Node.js in the browser
BrowserPod provisions a Linux environment inside the browser tab using the visitor's own compute. Node.js 22 is available in beta, with Python and Ruby on Rails to follow.
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About Leaning Technologies
Leaning Technologies Ltd builds WebAssembly runtimes that allow desktop and server-based software to run inside the browser, on the user's own machine rather than on a server. Its projects include BrowserPod, CheerpJ and WebVM, which together have over one million users and more than 18,000 GitHub stars. Over 100 organisations use its technology, among them NASA, Ticketmaster and Siemens. Founded in 2015, it has grown organically and rapidly since. Leaning Technologies operates from Leeds, UK and Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is led by its founders Stefano De Rossi (CEO) and Alessandro Pignotti (CTO). More at leaningtech.com .
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