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The road of running Nginx with WebAssembly

• aequitas 8y ago
  I'm missing the use case here or understanding webassembly wrong. What is the use of running a webserver inside your webbrowser?
  • syrusakbary 8y ago
    The goal of Wasmer is being able to run WebAssembly not just in the browser, but also in servers at native speed.
    • anonfunction 8y ago
      Why though?
      • syrusakbary 8y ago
        There are a few reasons: * It opens the possibility of having universal binaries regardless of the host operating system. That means running Nginx, Python, ffmpeg with just one binary (rather than one for each architecture) * It could mean an easier interaction between languages (similar to GraalVM is doing Truffle) - without any recompilation
        • amaccuish 8y ago
          So, very simply put, it's like Java?
          • TomMarius 8y ago
            Yes, but with potentially much better (wider) industry adoption and support.
    • atonse 8y ago
      I still don't see the point of it for a piece of infrastructure like a web server. What's the trade-off? What do you gain for the overhead?