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by pjmlp 1236 days ago
Containers and similar OS security features already provide that.
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ridruejo 1236 days ago
Not with that level of granularity. Wasm is able to run in severely constrained environments (ie microcontrollers) and non-posix OS that may not be able to support containers
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pjmlp 1236 days ago
Like Western Digital having hard disk controllers running P-Code in 1979.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_MicroEngine

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ridruejo 1236 days ago
Sure. Everything in computing pretty much builds on top of everything else. Wasm is no different and incorporates a lot of the learnings from previous technologies like Java and .NET
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awwaiid 1236 days ago
Exploring and providing new and different approaches is worthwhile, and I doubt the tradeoffs of each technology is identical.
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pjmlp 1236 days ago
Except these aren't new approaches.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=descriptions-lan...

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