![Vessels trending on Reddit](https://blog.joerezendes.com/content/images/2020/08/vessels-trending.png)
What an exciting time to be alive.
If you’ve been active in the Rust community recently, then you’re probably asking the same question everyone else is.
![What is vessels](https://blog.joerezendes.com/content/images/2020/08/what-is-vessels.png)
It’s 2020, and web assembly isn’t going anywhere, and with this exciting new technology, the future of software development is emerging.
![The future is vessels](https://blog.joerezendes.com/content/images/2020/08/vessels-is-the-future.png)
A new way to create software
So what exactly is Vessels then?
Vessels is an Ecosystem-oriented cross-platform application development framework based on a distributed object model and low-overhead containerization.
Still confused?
Let me paint a picture for you.
You turn on your computer.
![](https://blog.joerezendes.com/content/images/2020/08/vessels-os.png)
You open your browser.
![A vessels browser developed fully in Rust](https://blog.joerezendes.com/content/images/2020/08/vessels-browser.png)
You go to a vessel-site.
![Vessels DNS, design and ship applications that run natively on any device](https://blog.joerezendes.com/content/images/2020/08/vessels-dns.png)
The protocol? Vessels.
![Introducing vessels protocol](https://blog.joerezendes.com/content/images/2020/08/vessels-protocol.png)
The site that you download? Vessels.
![Vessel websites work fully offline](https://blog.joerezendes.com/content/images/2020/08/vessels-offline.png)
The rendering? Vessels.
![Vessels rendering engine](https://blog.joerezendes.com/content/images/2020/08/vessels-rendering-engine.png)
By this point, you’re probably thinking one thing:
![](https://blog.joerezendes.com/content/images/2020/08/vessels-future.gif)
The future is now.
![](https://blog.joerezendes.com/content/images/2020/08/vessels-comment.png)
Next steps??
We don’t know much yet. According to the Author, this is intentional, as Vessels is still actively under development.
What can we do?
![Vessels - the future is now](https://blog.joerezendes.com/content/images/2020/08/the-future-is-now--vessels.png)
Check out the GitHub repo for more information, and don’t forget to Star it to stay updated on its progress.