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Re:WebAssembly: Docker Without Containers by ilyt on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @08:13AM (#34080268)
Well, having essentially a VM that was supposedly designed to be language-agnostic and easy to sandbox is a benefit over a VM that is designed for single language and never put much thought into embedding.
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Re:WebAssembly: Docker Without Containers by pjmlp on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @08:19AM (#34080333)
Even being language-agnostic was a path already trailed by Burroughs and IBM mainframes, besides lots of other ones.
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Re:WebAssembly: Docker Without Containers by ilyt on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @08:38AM (#34080542)
Well, everything in IT is circular, just before you had to pay tens of millions to IBM for the priviledge
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