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56 mentions on Hacker News by 34 people: 6 stories, 50 comments · first 2018-12-08 · latest 2026-01-29

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  1. …for your use-case, but at Wasmer we’ve been spending some time adding support for the eh proposal: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/pull/5383
  2. …had some quirks on the implementation that we had to polish, but is generally implemented [1]). https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/blob/main/lib/c-api/tests... If you are interested in running any of these cases using Wasmer via the…
    comment by syrusakbary · 2025-02-04 · in I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C
  3. afaik it's far from adopted by Wasmer. https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/issues/2615 - stale then autoclosed
    comment by tondrej · 2025-02-04 · in I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C
  4. …binary run in the browser. Also, the project called "wasmer" that is discussed in this thread is https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer and not wasmer-js that you link to.
    comment by 0points · 2024-10-30 · in Wasmer 5.0
  5. Just suggested as well Wasmer on Twitter! https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer Looking forward to seeing the results :)
  6. …free to pick your runtime, I'm sure you could configure Wasmtime into doing what you want. [0]: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/blob/master/lib/middlewar... [1]: https://github.com/WasmEdge/WasmEdge/pull/910 [2]:…
  7. …doesn't make specially easy to see if such an approach will be sufficient for them or not. [1] https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/issues/4218#issuecomment-...
  8. …the team's issues? [0] https://ziglang.org/news/bounties-damage-open-source-project... [1] https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/issues/4218
  9. …the sponsorship to the Wasmer repository, even though the work will need to be in Zig codebase: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/issues/4218
    comment by syrusakbary · 2023-09-17 · in Bounties Damage Open Source Projects
  10. …reason, then the alternative would be to host the bounty on Wasmer’s repo as they have done now https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/issues/4218 .
    comment by ayewo · 2023-09-17 · in Bounties Damage Open Source Projects
  11. …we moved the sponsorship work to the Wasmer repo, so those who want to work on it can do it freely. https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/issues/4218
    comment by syrusakbary · 2023-09-17 · in Bounties Damage Open Source Projects
  12. …tps://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime - https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime - https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer - https://github.com/tetratelabs/wazero - https://github.com/extism/extism (disclaimer, my company's…
  13. …- they claim their Docker image is 40 MB compressed, whereas Wasmer for amd64 (latest from https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/releases ) is a 80 MB tar.gz (unpacks to 300 MB tar). Even with larger images, like the `wordpress` image (200…
    comment by Kwpolska · 2023-04-06 · in Announcing WCGI: WebAssembly and CGI
  14. …[2] https://wasmer.io/posts/wasmer-and-trademarks [3] https://mnt.io/2021/10/04/i-leave-wasmer/ [4] https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/issues/956 [5] https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/3
  15. Sure thing. Check the WASI README (a section was just added to clarify your comment) https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/blob/master/lib/wasi/READ...
    comment by syrusakbary · 2022-11-24 · in Wasmer 3.0
  16. …safe. That's not sandboxing. All the "sandboxed by default" claims are misleading, at least ). https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/issues/221 That even people here on HN believe in the currently unfulfilled WASM security promises shows only…
    comment by still_grokking · 2022-11-24 · in Wasmer 3.0
  17. …of macros) [1]. We will create a simple example of multivalue to showcase how it can be used [1]: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/blob/master/tests/compile...
    comment by syrusakbary · 2022-11-23 · in Wasmer 3.0
  18. Please make sure you benchmark with the latest beta of Wasmer! (3.0.0-beta2) https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/releases
    comment by syrusakbary · 2022-09-22 · in Wasmtime 1.0
  19. …authored. You should consider changing your GitHub password or getting a carbon monoxide detector. https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/pull/3013
    comment by throwaway575758 · 2022-09-06 · in Lunatic: Erlang-Inspired Runtime for WebAssembly
  20. …I can assure you that Wasmer will implement this once browsers do (if they ever do, of course) [1]: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/pull/2892
    comment by syrusakbary · 2022-06-16 · in Wasmer – Universal WebAssembly Runtime
  21. …splashy but not particularly informative. There's a lot more information on their github page here: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer
    comment by loudmax · 2022-06-16 · in Wasmer – Universal WebAssembly Runtime
  22. …to support dlopen/dlsym, see: https://github.com/WebAssembly/tool-conventions/blob/main/Dy... [0] https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/issues/1995
    comment by gary_0 · 2022-04-19 · in WebAssembly 2.0 First Working Draft
  23. For anyone curious about Bytecode Alliance: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/issues/956
    comment by tylermenezes · 2022-03-24 · in Wasmer and Trademarks
  24. …themselves, and everything else.) [0] https://github.com/appcypher/awesome-wasm-runtimes [1] https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer [2] https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime
  25. …was the obvious choice to not sacrifice on speed while getting a cryptographic hash function. [1] https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/pull/1140
    comment by syrusakbary · 2021-07-26 · in BLAKE3 1.0
  26. The wasmer-c-api lands in https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/tree/master/lib/c-api , with the documentation being accessible at https://wasmerio.github.io/wasmer/crates/wasmer_c_api/index.... :-).
    comment by Hywan · 2021-06-18 · in Wasmer 2.0
  27. We showcase them already on the main repo (see other installation options): https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer#install Do you think it will be useful to be showcased more prominently somewhere else?
    comment by syrusakbary · 2021-06-17 · in Wasmer 2.0
  28. …so LLVM would handle it directly. If you are curious about the tech details, here's the PR! https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/pull/2161
    comment by syrusakbary · 2021-06-17 · in Wasmer 2.0
  29. …out our [release blog post]( https://wasmer.io/posts/wasmer-2.0 ). > Check out the [changelog]( https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md ) for details on all the changes and fixes. You can update wasmer with `wasmer…
    comment by wiqar · 2021-06-16 · in Wasmer 2.0 Now Available!
  30. …if the new Wizer component can be used by other projects in the WebAssembly space, e.g. Wasmer? https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer (Haven't fully grasped how they're different from wasmtime, but I think they've spend more effort on…
    comment by sandstrom · 2021-06-03 · in Making JavaScript run fast on WebAssembly
  31. …"Fast & Safe. Wasmer runs WebAssembly at near-native speed in a fully sandboxed environment." ( https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer ) But ... "Cranelift does not yet perform mitigations for Specter or related security issues, though it may…
  32. There is no V8 here, you don't need a JS VM to run WASM. It uses wasmer, a Rust based WASM VM: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer
    comment by nahuel0x · 2021-02-08 · in Rust Foundation: Hello, World
  33. Perhaps you would enjoy the sequel, then: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer
  34. …(PHP, Ruby, Python, ...) 4. Running WASI fully in a browser, including an online shell [3] [1] https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/issues/142#issuecomment-4... [2] https://wapm.io [3] https://webassembly.sh
    comment by syrusakbary · 2020-10-27 · in Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla
  35. …language instead of e.g. liquid and still be secure. [1] https://github.com/tessi/wasmex/ [2] https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer [3] https://rubygems.org/gems/wasmer [4] https://github.com/Shopify/liquid
    comment by tess0r · 2020-08-16 · in WebAssembly without the browser
  36. We used the mmap implementation (20 lines of code) which is also reflected in our attributions :) https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/blob/master/ATTRIBUTIONS.... Perhaps I'm missing something. Were you referring to some other code I'm not…
  37. …speed (tldr: we are ahead ;) ), here are some other articles [3] [4] Hope this is useful! [0]: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer [1]: https://medium.com/wasmer/a-webassembly-compiler-tale-9ef37a... [2]:…
  38. …native frameworks. The progress is pretty fast. Not to mention wasmer is pretty sweet - https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer
    comment by thrwaway69 · 2020-01-03 · in Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
  39. …requires non-trivial work to make WASM fast, which shouldn't be needed given a different model. [1] https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/tree/master/lib/llvm-back... [2] https://github.com/WAVM/WAVM
    comment by xuejie · 2019-12-16 · in WASM as a Platform for Abstraction
  40. …exfiltrate data That's what we are working towards on Wasmer, the server side WebAssembly runtime - https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer In fact, we already have a lot of different language integrations (maintained by us and the community)…
  41. That should be doable! (Disclaimer: I work at Wasmer https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer )
    comment by syrusakbary · 2019-09-01 · in Dqlite – High-Availability SQLite
  42. …where I had heard of Cranelift before- seems like it is the default backend for wasmer[1]. [1] https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer#building
    comment by dhuramas · 2019-08-28 · in GCC null pointer check removed
  43. …very relevant in the future and we are betting big on it. Please check more about our project here: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer
    comment by syrusakbary · 2019-07-04 · in Python Ported to WebAssembly
  44. …See previous statement about WSL. > wasmer itself doesn't even support Windows First, it will: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/issues/51#issuecomment-44... Second, I write code that doesn't run on my terminal all the time, but I need…
    comment by Godel_unicode · 2019-04-24 · in Show HN: WAPM – Package Manager for WebAssembly
  45. …:) I didn't find any issues labelled "good first issue" but I did find a related issue[0] [0]: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/issues/267
  46. …in the different backends is mostly the challenge. The Python extension uses the Wasmer runtime ( https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer ) which supports 3 backends to generate executable code: Singlepass, Cranelift, and LLVM. Cranelift is the…
  47. …and LLVM. Each with a tradeoff between runtime speed and compilation speed (more info here https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/tree/master/lib#backends ). Lucet's architecture only supports one backend at the moment. 3. Wasmer has multiple…
    comment by syrusakbary · 2019-03-28 · in Lucet: Native WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime
  48. …to which the people in this project took "inspiration" from wasmjit has been questioned as well https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/commit/a81500e047fdd321b3...
    comment by youareawesome · 2019-02-26 · in Universal Binaries Using WASM
  49. …syscalls that Emscripten is using with the real syscalls under the hood. Here's an example of that: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/blob/master/src/apis/emsc...
  50. …used to refer to this identical nginx.wasm which made me think you were collaborating somewhat! https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/blob/master/examples/ngin...
    comment by varenc · 2018-12-08 · in Nginx on Wasmjit