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troupotoday at 11:07 AM1 replyview on HN

why.... why would financial services orgs and government infra run anything on wasm serverside?


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boomskatstoday at 11:25 AM

It's lightweight, capability-secured, services start up way faster, smaller overhead than VMs, better isolation than containers, faster replication, etc.

The original Wasmtime 1.0 blog post explains it all really well: https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/wasmtime-1-0-fast-safe...