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Sandboxed kernel mode WebAssembly runtime.

9 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 4 stories, 5 comments · first 2019-11-13 · latest 2025-11-20

Mentions per year 9 mentions · busiest year 2019 (2)
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  1. …these are my crazy predictions. [0] https://source.android.com/docs/core/runtime/jit-compiler [1] https://github.com/wasmerio/kernel-wasm (outdated)
  2. ▲ 1
    Ask HN: Run WASM (GC) kernel Touch-UI on Embedded Devices?
    story by sandreas · 2024-11-14 · 0 comments
  3. ▲ 2
    Sandboxed kernel mode WebAssembly runtime (2020)
    story by nequo · 2024-07-23 · 0 comments
  4. ▲ 103
    Kernel-WASM: Sandboxed kernel mode WebAssembly runtime for Linux
    story by nateb2022 · 2023-01-21 · 83 comments
  5. You can “already” run Wasm modules in kernel to speed up things https://github.com/wasmerio/kernel-wasm
    comment by miohtama · 2022-09-07 · in Wasmtime 1.0: A Look at Performance
  6. …you want from a plugin system. It also allows far greater isolation than "real" compiled code. [0] https://github.com/wasmerio/kernel-wasm
    comment by franga2000 · 2021-06-02 · in Helix: a post-modern modal text editor
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    WebAssembly in the Linux Kernel, with Faster-Than-Native Performance
    story by k__ · 2020-02-25 · 14 comments
  8. Yes, though it's early days yet. See: https://github.com/wasmerio/kernel-wasm
    comment by rhencke · 2019-12-03 · in BPF: A New Type of Software
  9. …browser networking. Some experiments with wasm in linux kernel show safe bypass is a possibility ;) https://github.com/wasmerio/kernel-wasm