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by 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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Like Western Digital having hard disk controllers running P-Code in 1979.

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

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