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I have a hard time understanding what Wasmer does from their landing page. I understand it runs everything everywhere, unbound and above the cloud, but what doe

by thiht 2y ago

I have a hard time understanding what Wasmer does from their landing page. I understand it runs everything everywhere, unbound and above the cloud, but what does it do? From the name it seems like a very dev oriented product, and I can’t find a single technical word, just buzzwords

Alifatisk 2y ago
From my understandning, it's a runtime that runs webassembly (wasm). So anything that can be compiled to wasm can be runned with this which means it can be executable everywhere wasmer exists.
flohofwoe 2y ago
It's a runtime for WASI blobs (basically a WASM based standard for crossplatform command line tools), for instance: emcc hello.c -o hello.wasm wasmer hello.wasm Hello World! This uses Emscripten as C compiler, but alternatively you can use the wasi-sdk toolchain instead of Emscripten to build WASI blobs: - https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-sdk https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-sdk ...or Zig as C compiler: zig cc -target wasm32-wasi hello.c -o hello.wasm wasmer hello.wasm Hello World! ...or of course Zig as Zig compiler :) zig -target wasm32-wasi hello.zig wasmer hello.wasm Hello World! (not sure if the Rust toolchain comes with builtin WASI support, but probably yes). ...or instead of wasmer use another WASI runtime: - https://github.com/wasmerio/awesome-wasi?tab=readme-ov-file#wasi-compatible-runtimes https://github.com/wasmerio/awesome-wasi?tab=readme-ov-file#... ...this is probably the best part of WASM and WASI, there's no 'vendor lock-in'.
- thiht 2y ago
  > It's a runtime for WASI blobs (basically a WASM based standard for crossplatform command line tools) Thanks! I wish this was the subtitle on their homepage :)
  - flohofwoe 2y ago
    I mean, it's a Californian tech startup, what did you expect ;) Anything that isn't "earth-shattering" and "world-changing" would be too pedestrian, especially when your product is essentially a simple cmdline tool for coders (a very useful tool of course but not exactly "glamorous").
syrusakbary 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I'm Syrus, from Wasmer. We are currently working on redesigning the homepage so its easier to know what we do and what is our business value. Stay tuned :)

by thiht 2y ago

Alifatisk 2y ago

From my understandning, it's a runtime that runs webassembly (wasm). So anything that can be compiled to wasm can be runned with this which means it can be executable everywhere wasmer exists.

flohofwoe 2y ago

It's a runtime for WASI blobs (basically a WASM based standard for crossplatform command line tools), for instance: emcc hello.c -o hello.wasm wasmer hello.wasm Hello World! This uses Emscripten as C compiler, but alternatively you can use the wasi-sdk toolchain instead of Emscripten to build WASI blobs: - https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-sdk https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-sdk ...or Zig as C compiler: zig cc -target wasm32-wasi hello.c -o hello.wasm wasmer hello.wasm Hello World! ...or of course Zig as Zig compiler :) zig -target wasm32-wasi hello.zig wasmer hello.wasm Hello World! (not sure if the Rust toolchain comes with builtin WASI support, but probably yes). ...or instead of wasmer use another WASI runtime: - https://github.com/wasmerio/awesome-wasi?tab=readme-ov-file#wasi-compatible-runtimes https://github.com/wasmerio/awesome-wasi?tab=readme-ov-file#... ...this is probably the best part of WASM and WASI, there's no 'vendor lock-in'.

thiht 2y ago
> It's a runtime for WASI blobs (basically a WASM based standard for crossplatform command line tools) Thanks! I wish this was the subtitle on their homepage :)
- flohofwoe 2y ago
  I mean, it's a Californian tech startup, what did you expect ;) Anything that isn't "earth-shattering" and "world-changing" would be too pedestrian, especially when your product is essentially a simple cmdline tool for coders (a very useful tool of course but not exactly "glamorous").

syrusakbary 2y ago

Thanks for the feedback! I'm Syrus, from Wasmer. We are currently working on redesigning the homepage so its easier to know what we do and what is our business value. Stay tuned :)