[zapita]

Is zerovm still active? I loved the concept, but the startup behind it is gone, and it’s built on Nacl which is being deprecated by wasm... I would live to see it portes to wasm and expanded behind the original “python compute embedded in openstack storage” use case, which was underwhelming. There are so many more exciting applications to server-side wasm. I hope someone actually builds this.

At one point I got my hopes up that Docker would build this as the logical next step after Linux containers... But they seem to be focused on monetizing the containers/kubernetes movement, which makes sense as a business decision but still is disappointing.

[derefr]

Considering that PNaCl was made for running untrusted, user-supplied native code in a sandbox-environment resembling that of native Linux binaries; and was used for this in e.g. Google App Engine to build the various first-generation container runtimes...

...and considering that GVisor (https://github.com/google/gvisor) is now used by Google for that same use-case...

...then perhaps GVisor (or a thin "make everything deterministic" layer on top of it) could be looked at as something like a "spiritual successor" to ZeroVM?