[juntao]

Disclaimer: I am a maintainer at WasmEdge.

One of the benefits of running JS in Wasm (specifically the QuickJS approach) is that you can create JS APIs in Rust. That allows you to move a lot of compute intensive operations into Rust while still giving your developers a clean and nice JS API. WasmEdge does this with its JS Tensorflow API:

https://wasmedge.org/book/en/write_wasm/js/tensorflow.html

In fact, we are using Rust to support the entire Node.JS API in WasmEdge. :)

[cmrdporcupine]

Not to denigrate your work, it's good what you're working on... but I can create JS APIs in Rust with native V8 bindings, too: https://github.com/denoland/rusty_v8/blob/main/examples/proc...

After working on a couple codebases that used wasmtime and wasmer heavily, I think if I were to start from scratch I'd just use V8 as my WASM runtime.

(And the model I would follow would be to containerize the V8 runtime piece inside its own cgroup, with resource budgets and permission constraints. cgroups accounting beats the limited and inefficient accounting one gets from the various WASM runtime opcode based accounting systems.)

[juntao]

Personally, I believe v8 is and always will be primarily focused on the browser use case. It’s support for wasi, container tooling will always take a back seat compared with priorities in the browser.

Today, there are a large set of Rust apps that can run in WasmEdge, wasmtime, Fermyon spin, wasmCloud etc, but would not run on v8’s embedded Wasm engine …

However, I do agree that v8 excels in JavaScript.

[azakai]

The design of WASI and the component model are layered, though: you could start with V8 and build a runtime with full WASI etc. support.

In fact, Node.js and Deno have both done exactly that, a V8 core with layered APIs on top including WASI.