• Fair Fairy@thelemmy.clubOP
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    20 hours ago

    Huh? How would wasm replace containers?
    Wasm will allow writing for web browser in golang and php. Server containers won’t go away

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      18 hours ago

      If WASM+WASI existed in 2008, we wouldn’t have needed to create Docker. That’s how important it is. WebAssembly on the server is the future of computing. - Solomon Hykes (co-founder of Docker)

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        56 minutes ago

        Considering how important WASM is, I haven’t seen a single application of it.

        WASM on the server seems especially weird since it’s not much more than a bytecode interpreter. At that point you could just use a JVM, maybe with some more cut-down API to make it more sandboxed.

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        17 hours ago

        Well duh. But now it’s too late. It’s not replacing docker in part because mere execution is not only thing docker does.