Wasmer Alternatives

Reviews and mentions

• WASM instead of C Dependencies?
  9 projects | dev.to | 14 Jan 2022

  Wasmer Cranelift runtime: 275ms

• State of the Web: WebAssembly
  7 projects | dev.to | 1 Jan 2022

  WebAssembly is a sandboxed language, and because of that, it is secure. Tools like Wasmer allow running WASM outside of the web with limited system calls and metering CPU cycles. WebAssembly's security has made lightweight serverless function environments like Cloudflare Workers, Fastly [email protected], and WasmEdge increasingly adopt WebAssembly. WebAssembly can even be more secure than JavaScript on the web because of the simplicity of the compiler. Unlike JavaScript, which has a complicated three-tiered JIT compiler/runtime, which can be very buggy. In contrast, because WebAssembly is strongly typed and closer to machine code, the compilers for WebAssembly can be more straightforward and, therefore, more secure. Firefox even uses WebAssembly for font shaping because of its sandboxing capabilities.

• Uncovered Intermediate Topics
  11 projects | reddit.com/r/rust | 18 Dec 2021

  One topic where I've seen a few blog posts but no good solutions is implementing a plugin mechanism. It would be interesting to see a compare/contrast of communicating over a socket vs using something wasm based like wasmer.

• Wasmer 2.1 Released: Virtual Filesystem, iOS support, Singlepass in Windows, deterministic builds and more!
  1 project | reddit.com/r/rust | 2 Dec 2021

  https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/releases/tag/v2.1.0 (incorrect) \\ https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/releases/tag/2.1.0 (correct)

• What do you NOT like about Rust?
  18 projects | reddit.com/r/rust | 21 Nov 2021

  Have you looked into either abi_stable (a crate that handles the repr(C) stuff for you with a focus aimed at making DLLs) or Wasmer (an embeddable WebAssembly runtime that would mean mods compiled for x86 Windows would also work on PowerPC Linux and ARM macOS)?

• Compiling a Compiler to WASM
  3 projects | reddit.com/r/rust | 1 Nov 2021

  LLVM and Cranelift are the only backends that Rust has right now. LLVM has a WASM backend as it is but not a complete WASI toolchain, that I'm aware of. LLVM is a bit of a beast to port to unsupported platforms though and that's the weak link. If WASI were able to be generated by any of the backends above, it would be possible to compile the existing Rust compiler to it. This would imply having a std runtime or libc crate so it might need Wasmer to supply that runtime to. Wasmer is written in Rust so it would probably be the most helpful runtime to target.

• WebAssembly
  4 projects | dev.to | 31 Oct 2021

  Similar to how Node.js brought JavaScript to the desktop and server environments, efforts have been made to bring WASM to the desktop through Wasmtime, Wasmer, and others. Similar to how Node provides filesystem I/O to JavaScript, WASI is an API that brings several operating system-like features to WASM.

• Rust web frameworks, a new look? (discussion)
  12 projects | reddit.com/r/rust | 5 Oct 2021

  For executing the same WASM binary on server and in browser, it may be fruitful to look at something like Wasmer.

• hello guys...I am new to web development and want to know if I can use python for client-side development?
  4 projects | reddit.com/r/webdev | 1 Oct 2021

  https://wasmer.io/ is one example, https://pyodide.org/ is another of using Python for the front end

• Use Rust (instead of C++) to develop some algorithms used in Flutter in a real app used in the *production environment* - Is it mature enough? Will I face troubles? Do you suggest it? Has anyone used it?
  4 projects | reddit.com/r/FlutterDev | 28 Sep 2021

  Alternatively, you can compile the Rust code to WASM and run it within your C++ using Wasmer: https://wasmer.io/

• What's the state of Rust and WebAssembly?
  7 projects | reddit.com/r/rust | 14 Aug 2021

  Have you looked into Wasmer or wasmtime? Both are quite well established and fully featured.

• Why WebAssembly is innovative even outside the browser
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Aug 2021
• BLAKE3 1.0.0
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jul 2021

  This is awesome. We have been using BLAKE3 in Wasmer for more than a year [1] and has been working great for us.

  We were trying to find a hash function for WebAssembly files that is crypto-safe. The only alternatives that were fast enough (>1Gbps) were not crypto-safe (ahash, murmur, crc32), so BLAKE3 was the obvious choice to not sacrifice on speed while getting a cryptographic hash function.

  [1] https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/pull/1140

• What's everyone working on this week (28/2021)?
  9 projects | reddit.com/r/rust | 12 Jul 2021

  I'm planning to build it in Rust and it will rely heavily on webassembly (through Wasmer. I'm currently evaluating components like libp2p to see whether I can build on top of them.

• Rust game engine with WASM game module?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/rust_gamedev | 7 Jul 2021

  I was wondering if it would make sense to do something similar in Rust: write the game engine in Rust and compile to native instructions, but compile the game code itself to WASM and host it using wasmer.