What does HackerNews think of WasmEdge?
WasmEdge is a lightweight, high-performance, and extensible WebAssembly runtime for cloud native, edge, and decentralized applications. It powers serverless apps, embedded functions, microservices, smart contracts, and IoT devices.
https://www.fermyon.dev has more information about how the underlying platform operates on their end. Nomad is mentioned but not the VM of choice that will underpin the cold-start times they boast of. e.g. SecondStateVM(wasmEdge) claims fastest 20ms cold-start [2]
[1] https://wasmcloud.com/blog/globally_distributed_webassembly_... [2] https://github.com/WasmEdge/WasmEdge
wasm has its place, especially for contained workloads that can be wrapped in strict capability boundaries compile-time (think, file-encoding jobs that shouldn't access anything else but said files: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29112713).
> Containers are still the defacto standard.
afa FaaS is concerned, wasmedge [0], atmo [1], tarmac [2], krustlet [3], blueboat [4] and numerous other projects are turning up the heat [5]!
[0] https://github.com/WasmEdge/WasmEdge
[1] https://github.com/suborbital/atmo
[2] https://github.com/madflojo/tarmac
[3] https://github.com/krustlet/krustlet