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by jpillora 493 days ago
They're different things, solving different problems:

- Containers are wrappers for binaries. Any binary can be contained, and when run, it gets a constrained (fake) view of the kernel.

- WASM defines a portable binary format. WASM is intermediate-representation, in the same vein as Java byte-code.

You could reasonably put WASM binaries inside containers