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Would be nice to get Alpine or Debian compiled to WASM, that way it would just be another architecture to be run through Docker and we could get a lot of easy-t

Would be nice to get Alpine or Debian compiled to WASM, that way it would just be another architecture to be run through Docker and we could get a lot of easy-to-run Docker images right in the browser. Is there any project working on this?

simonw 4y ago
That already exists. In fact the Crunchy Data PostgreSQL playground loads a full Linux VM as part of how it works. Take a look at this project: https://webvm.io/ https://webvm.io/ - explained here: https://leaningtech.com/webvm-server-less-x86-virtual-machines-in-the-browser/ https://leaningtech.com/webvm-server-less-x86-virtual-machin...
- doliveira 4y ago
  But you wouldn't need to emulate x86 itself, the binaries would just compile to WASM like they do for ARM. I guess for that one would need to implement all Linux syscalls in WASM
yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
The problem is that it would be an actual new architecture (just as much as ARM or MIPS or whatever), which means you wouldn't have compatibility with any existing docker images.