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by boomskats 7 days ago
Ready for what?

WASM is already running in production at a whole bunch of financial services orgs and government infra.

The thing is, it's not running anywhere near HTML, CSS or JavaScript. It's running serverside, mostly on Wasmtime - which, as it happens, is what this post is all about.
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alex_suzuki 6 days ago
> it's not running anywhere near HTML, CSS or JavaScript

There’s plenty of usage in the browser environment as well, plenty of client-side SDKs for things like e.g. video editing, barcode scanning, etc. use it.

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troupo 7 days ago
why.... why would financial services orgs and government infra run anything on wasm serverside?
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boomskats 7 days ago
It's lightweight, capability-secured, services start up way faster, smaller overhead than VMs, better isolation than containers, faster replication, etc.

The original Wasmtime 1.0 blog post explains it all really well: https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/wasmtime-1-0-fast-safe...

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