Running JavaScript in WebAssembly with WasmEdge
WebAssembly started as a “JavaScript alternative for browsers”. The idea is to run high-performance applications compiled from languages like C/C++ or Rust safely in browsers. In the browser, WebAssembly runs side by side with JavaScript.
Figure 1. WebAssembly and JavaScript in the browser.
As WebAssembly is increasingly used in the cloud, it is now a universal runtime for cloud-native applications. Compared with Docker-like application containers, WebAssembly runtimes achieve higher performance with lower resource consumption.…
