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by born-jre 978 days ago
nice, but i had a separate idea.

what if u build a wasm runtime that can save and restore memory with and execution states, sounds much more full proof. or i might have misunderstood this idea :D.

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We tried that actually, and it can work well but you make a different set of trade offs. For example, you can’t get the granularity that durable coroutines give you, you’re bound to snapshot and restore the entire state of the application.

WASM is also not as mature of a tech for server side systems, a lot is left to figure out so the type of applications that you can build with it remains limited.

I’d be excited to see support for something like this get built tho!