Well duh. But now it’s too late. It’s not replacing docker in part because mere execution is not only thing docker does.
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melfie@lemy.lol 5 months agoIf WASM+WASI existed in 2008, we wouldn’t have needed to create Docker. That’s how important it is. WebAssembly on the server is the future of computing. - Solomon Hykes (co-founder of Docker)
sommerset@thelemmy.club 5 months ago
squaresinger@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Considering how important WASM is, I haven’t seen a single application of it.
WASM on the server seems especially weird since it’s not much more than a bytecode interpreter. At that point you could just use a JVM, maybe with some more cut-down API to make it more sandboxed.