Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs
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Re: Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs
#2This is quite cool...
But at the same time, please tell me this is not the future of software packaging.
Re: Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs
#3Would recommend checking out the container examples, they are suprisingly fast.
Re: Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs
#4This is quite cool... But at the same time, please tell me this is not the future of software packaging.
Allow me to introduce you to https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
Everything is on track.
Re: Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs
#5Any performance benchmarks or details of the practicality? Eg could this run on something like Cloudflare Workers?
Re: Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs
#6Wow, haven’t seen Bochs mentioned since I was doing hobby OS development 15 years ago. I guess there’s not a ton of emulators that don’t use JIT or hardware extensions these days.
Re: Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs
#7Whyyyyyyy.
bangs head into desk
Re: Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs
#8This is quite cool... But at the same time, please tell me this is not the future of software packaging.
Newt: My mommy always said there were no monsters, no real ones, but there are.
Ripley: Yes, there are, aren't there?
Newt: Why do they tell little kids that?
Ripley: Most of the time it's true.
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But yes, I do believe this has a strong, serverless future.
Re: Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs
#9Maybe these containers should be build for wasm-wasi instead of x86 from the beginning? Then there would be no need to emulate x86 in wasm
Re: Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs
#10Is this a "why not" project, or are there real-world use cases for this?