lspcontainers.nvim vs kernel-wasm

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lspcontainers.nvim		kernel-wasm
	Project
8	Mentions	8
294	Stars	718
2.0%	Growth	2.1%
4.8	Activity	0.0
4 months ago	Latest Commit	about 4 years ago
Lua	Language	C
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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lspcontainers.nvim

Posts with mentions or reviews of lspcontainers.nvim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-25.

Are the LSPs secure?
1 project | /r/neovim | 13 Mar 2023

Here is the plugin: https://github.com/lspcontainers/lspcontainers.nvim
Looking for devcontainer solution in neovim
3 projects | /r/neovim | 25 Oct 2022

lspcontainers/lspcontainers.vim
I have just published nvim-dev-container plugin
3 projects | /r/neovim | 19 May 2022

It's not the same, but you might be interested in looking at https://github.com/lspcontainers/lspcontainers.nvim, which also deals with running LSPs in containers.
Good resource for setting up neovim for a 20++ year Vim user?
6 projects | /r/neovim | 2 May 2022

The third alternative is lspcontainers. Runs the language server process in a docker/podman container, which I think is fantastic.
Has anyone had success using lsp-ws-proxy?
2 projects | /r/neovim | 11 Apr 2022

You may want to check https://github.com/lspcontainers/lspcontainers.nvim maybe this is a better idea.
Thoughts on improving security of Neovim plugins
7 projects | /r/neovim | 15 Nov 2021
Vim users, what additional plugins do you use with vim-go?
1 project | /r/golang | 28 Jul 2021

I use neovim with the builtin LSP and treesitter. With the lspcontainers plugin I run my langauge server in a docker container and I am very happy with my setup.
Pyright, imports and docker
1 project | /r/neovim | 28 May 2021

https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/jiocib/neovim_lsp_and_docker/ https://github.com/lspcontainers/lspcontainers.nvim https://github.com/lspcontainers/lspcontainers.nvim

kernel-wasm

Posts with mentions or reviews of kernel-wasm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-20.

Safely run WebAssembly in the Linux kernel, with faster-than-native performance.
1 project | /r/linux | 23 Jan 2023
Kernel-WASM: Sandboxed kernel mode WebAssembly runtime for Linux
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 21 Jan 2023

1 project | /r/hackernews | 21 Jan 2023

1 project | /r/hypeurls | 21 Jan 2023

4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jan 2023
Kernel-WASM - Sandboxed kernel mode WebAssembly runtime for Linux
1 project | /r/CKsTechNews | 21 Jan 2023
Thoughts on improving security of Neovim plugins
7 projects | /r/neovim | 15 Nov 2021

WASM is not related to JavaScript in any way, it's just a formal definition (see the spec) for a bytecode and a VM that executes it. One of the problems that WASM tries to solve for web development is to get away from JS because it's such a mess. It's unfortunate that WASM has "Web" in its name, as it's rally not just for Web: there are many embedded runtimes, for example, popular proxy server Envoy supports WASM for writing filters (aka extensions) and there's even WASM runtime for the Linux kernel.
Helix: a post-modern text editor
15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jun 2021

Wasm started in the web, but has since been ported even to the Linux kernel [0]. It seems perfect for situation where you near machine code levels of performance, but don't want to carry different binaries for different CPU architectures - exactly what you want from a plugin system. It also allows far greater isolation than "real" compiled code.
[0] https://github.com/wasmerio/kernel-wasm

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lspcontainers.nvim and kernel-wasm you can also consider the following projects:

nvim-remote-containers - Develop inside docker containers, just like VSCode

helix - A post-modern modal text editor.

lsp-ws-proxy - WebSocketify any Language Server

coc.nvim - Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers.

cscope_maps.nvim - For old school code navigation. Adds cscope support to Neovim 0.9+.

xi-editor - A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.

firejail - Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox

packer.nvim - A use-package inspired plugin manager for Neovim. Uses native packages, supports Luarocks dependencies, written in Lua, allows for expressive config

telescope-zoxide - An extension for telescope.nvim that allows you operate zoxide within Neovim.

keys - My personal ergodox, planck layouts.

cutlass.nvim - Plugin that adds a 'cut' operation separate from 'delete'

kakoune - mawww's experiment for a better code editor