embly VS wasmer

Compare embly vs wasmer and see what are their differences.

embly

Attempt at building an opinionated webassembly runtime for web services (by embly)

wasmer

🚀 The leading Wasm Runtime supporting WASIX, WASI and Emscripten (by wasmerio)
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embly wasmer
1 131
100 17,558
- 3.3%
0.0 9.9
about 3 years ago 7 days ago
Rust Rust
- MIT License
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embly

Posts with mentions or reviews of embly. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-06.
  • Launch HN: Lunatic (YC W21) – An Erlang Inspired WebAssembly Platform
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Mar 2021
    Hey, I tried to build something like this too: https://github.com/embly/embly

    My takeaway after building that is that the build tooling is the major pain point. If you're trying to onboard someone onto this platform from their favorite language the hard part is getting from code to the .wasm file. wasm-bindgen (as an example) has put so much effort into build tooling, I wonder if that's a necessary path for success here.

    It's also great that WASI exists now, if I had to do embly again I'd just use wasi and then implement all of my "platform" features as filesystem features, not syscalls. If your API interface is the filesystem then you could provide interoperability between environments. Let's say you want to include a key-value store in the wasi runtime, you just make the keys files and the values file contents. Then you could so something like ship a FUSE filesystem to interact with the filesystem in the same way from a traditional VM or on a personal computer. I got really bogged down in custom syscalls and this path seems potentially more elegant.

    Have you also thought about live process migration? I got really excited about this from a technical standpoint. Since you completely control the runtime you could set up a clustered wasm solution that moves long running processes from VM to VM by sending their live memory state to another machine. Not sure if that's actually useful, but cool that it's not bogged down by the usual complexities of doing the same in a full OS environment.

    Anyway, so glad to see that someone is taking this idea on. Please make a cloud platform and let me pay for it. Also happy to chat more if any of this is useful, I've joined your discord as "max".

wasmer

Posts with mentions or reviews of wasmer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-12.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing embly and wasmer you can also consider the following projects:

wasmtime - A fast and secure runtime for WebAssembly

SSVM - WasmEdge is a lightweight, high-performance, and extensible WebAssembly runtime for cloud native, edge, and decentralized applications. It powers serverless apps, embedded functions, microservices, smart contracts, and IoT devices.

wasm3 - 🚀 A fast WebAssembly interpreter and the most universal WASM runtime

quickjs-emscripten - Safely execute untrusted Javascript in your Javascript, and execute synchronous code that uses async functions

awesome-wasm-runtimes - A list of webassemby runtimes

wasm-bindgen - Facilitating high-level interactions between Wasm modules and JavaScript

actix-web - Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.

Node RED - Low-code programming for event-driven applications

wazero - wazero: the zero dependency WebAssembly runtime for Go developers

WAVM - WebAssembly Virtual Machine

go-plugin - Golang plugin system over RPC.

godot-wasm-engine