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You lose the regular Linux process you are used to and the interaction you can have between processes: start new ones to offload a small task, pipe data, trace
by goombacloud 5y ago
You lose the regular Linux process you are used to and the interaction you can have between processes: start new ones to offload a small task, pipe data, trace them with strace or debug them with gdb. I think this convenience also held back people from moving to Unikernels.
- flohofwoe 5y agoSecurity considerations aside, if you control the WASM runtime (for instance if WASM is used for a plugin/extension system) you can expose most of this functionality to the WASM code through your own runtime API.
- pjmlp 5y agoYet they are running containers on a top of type 1 hypervisor that they can only control over Web dashboards and cluster telemetry.