[nateabele]

> And for just that give up all the freedom docker runtimes give us?

Constraints give you freedom because they allow you to make guarantees. Checksums, reliable test suites, and good software abstractions are all examples.

> I don’t want to be forced to use go or rust - maybe I’d like to use bash, node or even the jvm depending on the problem I need to solve.

Those are runtimes, not languages. Here's a list of languages that compile to WASM: https://www.fermyon.com/wasm-languages/webassembly-language-...

IMO bash wouldn't make sense, but Java and Kotlin are there, as well as AssemblyScript, which is basically TypeScript.

[javaunsafe2019]

Oh, and I thought that they compile to native code and that therefore the kernel is the runtime …