wasmer-go VS wasmtime-go

Compare wasmer-go vs wasmtime-go and see what are their differences.

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wasmer-go wasmtime-go
11 2
2,730 750
1.1% 3.9%
0.0 6.2
5 months ago 5 days ago
Go Go
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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wasmer-go

Posts with mentions or reviews of wasmer-go. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-13.
  • Running WebAssembly code in Go
    1 project | dev.to | 12 Dec 2023
    The next step is to create a Go project and run our wasm file with some runtime. For this, I chose wasmer-go.
  • Running Go code inside a NodeJS app with WASM (Part 1/2, 2023)
    4 projects | dev.to | 13 Feb 2023
    However, there are other, more fleshed-out, libraries like wasmer-go that provides a runtime and help us navigate around these limitations. The wasmer-go documentation provides a good summary of these challenges:
  • How to develop a Web app in go
    9 projects | /r/golang | 19 Jan 2023
    wasmer-go
  • Plugo - A plugin library for Go.
    5 projects | /r/golang | 9 Dec 2022
    I did some research and found a WebAssembly runtime that can run Go code that has been compiled to WASM. It seems to me that one could implement a plugin system using this. I might try.
  • The Carcinization of Go Programs
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Nov 2022
    Thank you Syrus, appreciate your work with Wasmer. Congrats on the 3.0 release and Windows support! I just fixed guregu/trealla on WAPM to work with the latest changes. I think WAPM is very cool and I hope more people start doing releases on it.

    These are the two issues I'm referring to:

    https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-go/pull/200

    https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-go/pull/286

  • First steps with Golang and WebAssembly
    3 projects | dev.to | 21 May 2022
    Time to implement the other side of the story. I have found a WebAssembly runtime for Go. Wasmer-go is a complete and mature WebAssembly runtime for Go based on Wasmer.
  • Choosing scripting extension - need advice
    14 projects | /r/golang | 20 Apr 2022
    If performance is your main concern, there's Wasmer-go, but if you'd rather avoid CGO dependencies, there's wazero.
  • WASM without Node.js?
    3 projects | /r/golang | 5 Mar 2022
    See wasmer-go for server-side runtime.
  • Options for running WASM in Go?
    3 projects | /r/golang | 8 Aug 2021
    I've been looking at wasmer-go, and it seems to be quite performant given that the runtime is written in Rust and invoked through CGo bindings. Is this what everyone is using?
  • Trying to write a cross-language library
    8 projects | /r/rust | 25 Jul 2021
    Go: I don't know of anything higher-level than either exposing a C ABI from Rust and then calling it using cgo or using wasmer-go to embed a WebAssembly runtime in your Go program.

wasmtime-go

Posts with mentions or reviews of wasmtime-go. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-01.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing wasmer-go and wasmtime-go you can also consider the following projects:

napi-rs - A framework for building compiled Node.js add-ons in Rust via Node-API

Pion WebRTC - Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API

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

webassembly-wasi-experiments - Discover WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) with C/Rust use cases

uniffi-rs - a multi-language bindings generator for rust

wasm4 - Build retro games using WebAssembly for a fantasy console.

PyO3 - Rust bindings for the Python interpreter

grule-rule-engine - Rule engine implementation in Golang

wagon - wagon, a WebAssembly-based Go interpreter, for Go.

SWIG - SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages.

capsule - A Capsule application is a runner (or launcher) of wasm functions. Capsule HTTP can serve the functions through HTTP (it’s possible to use Capsule as a simple CLI with Capsule CLI). And soon: NATS and MQTT