Wasmer Things: An Upside-Down Guide to WebAssembly
summary
Argues WebAssembly from a compiler enthusiast’s low‑level view and claims its spec yields verification one page vs JVM 150 pages, compares real toolchains (LLVM, CLR, JVM) and shows concrete runtimes like Wasmtime Wasmer WasmEdge and Docker adding Wasm support, cites surprising portability wins such as Zig bootstraps via Wasm, shows Wasm used for Envoy/redpanda filters and dynamic linking into Go via zero, and demonstrates these integrations actually run and simplify sandboxed deployment.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:46Early 2000s
- 2:32Plugins
- 7:48Comparison
- 8:58JVM vs WebAssembly
- 10:56LVM
- 14:21Architecture
- 17:58Landscape
- 25:42Questions
- 27:47Parallels
- 29:34What do we still need
- 31:22Are we worried about the speed
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