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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

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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 [0] https://source.android.com/docs/core/runtime/jit-compiler [1] https://github.com/wasmerio/kernel-wasm (outdated)
    comment by maxdamantus · 2025-11-20 · in Implementation of a Java Processor on a FPGA (2016)
  2. 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
  3. …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
  4. 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
  5. …browser networking. Some experiments with wasm in linux kernel show safe bypass is a possibility ;) https://github.com/wasmerio/kernel-wasm
    comment by ArtWomb · 2019-11-13 · in Building a professional design tool on the web [Figma]