This looks to have come out of a blockchain company: https://github.com/wasmi-la...

herobird · 2024-05-28T14:42:52

Wasmi is an independent project nowadays. And you are right that it was originally designed for efficient smart contract execution but with a scope for more general use.

benatkin · 2024-05-28T16:21:13

I see it was included in the README. The other uses are also very interesting.

> It is an excellent choice for plugin systems, cloud hosts and as smart contract execution engine.

Would also be nice for a more dynamic sandboxed code running on mini home servers as something like https://sandstorm.io/

CaptainOfCoit · 2024-05-28T14:50:43

Most of the funded and innovative work on WebAssembly & co seems to come from various cryptocurrency/blockchain groups, for better or worse.

k__ · 2024-05-28T16:59:13

It's well suited for permissionless compute.

Only issue is, not all languages that compile to WASM are deterministic.

chrisco255 · 2024-05-28T17:40:40

Yeah typically you cannot use garbage collectors nor multithreading in smart contract development.

k__ · 2024-05-28T19:39:50

Interestingly, Lua has GC and is deterministic if you replace the random hash seed.