Wasmer 1.0 RC1 Released For Running WebAssembly On The Desktop Or Anywhere

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wasmer 1.0 RC1 Released For Running WebAssembly On The Desktop Or Anywhere

It's looking like Wasmer 1.0 will be released early in the new year as the open-source WebAssembly run-time for desktops or to run WASM code anywhere as a "universal runtime" in contexts outside of the web browser...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wasmer-1.0-RC1-Released

[rene]

thanks, updated in t2 :-) https://t2sde.org/packages/wasmer

[zoomblab]

Kudos for the people behind wasmer for reaching 1.0.

I will leave a reminder here that the reference implementation for WebAssembly is wasmtime, and also the reference implementation for WASI is the wasi-sdk. It is important that they come from the people who design WebAssembly.

[timofonic]

Why's this so interesting? What's the point? Another bytecode to use instead native code? I'm sorry, i fail to see it outside the web and maybe game programming.

[wizard69]

Why's this so interesting? What's the point? Another bytecode to use instead native code? I'm sorry, i fail to see it outside the web and maybe game programming.

I'm wondering the same thing. Visited he web site and it is a mix of good and bad. What is really short there is examples of code which should be front and center.

In any event you are right. I'm more concerned about a Python replacement that can do cross platform in a native manner. Unfortunately nothing is really there yet, Rust, Julia, Swift and others just are not thee yet. I really like Swift and Julia is interesting but good cross platform GUI's don't exist, especially GUI' that leverage the new languages. I just don't see a reason for WebAsembly as the browser is the worse place for applications in my mind.

[onlyLinuxLuvUBack]

I'm wondering the same thing. Visited he web site and it is a mix of good and bad. What is really short there is examples of code which should be front and center.

In any event you are right. I'm more concerned about a Python replacement that can do cross platform in a native manner. Unfortunately nothing is really there yet, Rust, Julia, Swift and others just are not thee yet. I really like Swift and Julia is interesting but good cross platform GUI's don't exist, especially GUI' that leverage the new languages. I just don't see a reason for WebAsembly as the browser is the worse place for applications in my mind.

Nim has a gui.

[pabloski]

I'm more concerned about a Python replacement that can do cross platform in a native manner.

Go is the cross-platform native Python replacement. And there are GTK+, QT, Sciter and some Electron-like GUI solutions.

[Quackdoc]

For everyone wondering why wasmer, because
A) Development
B) debugging
C) being able to run locally independent of restrictions of webbrowsers (such as shared buffer arrays,)
D) webbrowsers suck.

[Raka555]

For everyone wondering why wasmer, because
A) Development
B) debugging
C) being able to run locally independent of restrictions of webbrowsers (such as shared buffer arrays,)
D) webbrowsers suck.

+1 for webbrowsers suck