Re:WASM will replace containers
by weinzierl on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @04:15AM
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I think WASM will likely take over as the standard for shipping things like Functions-as-a-Service implementations, and other forms of plugins, where one host application/server of some kind wants to efficiently run pieces of untrusted logic.
I really hope WASM takes over as a plugin mechanism. I don't think it will lead to fragmentation because communities will form around their preferred language, it will
just not be enforced anymore. And forcing a plugin language did not work so successfully to prevent fragmentation anyway, see GNU Guile or vimscript.
I really hope WASM takes over as a plugin mechanism. I don't think it will lead to fragmentation because communities will form around their preferred language, it will just not be enforced anymore. And forcing a plugin language did not work so successfully to prevent fragmentation anyway, see GNU Guile or vimscript.