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Wasmer
Company blog · wasmer.io/posts · on HN as syrusakbaryprogrammingweb
Wasmer is the company blog at wasmer.io, writing about programming and web. Since 2018, 66 different Hacker News readers have linked it 181 times, most often “Wasmer – Universal WebAssembly Runtime”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
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Most-linked posts?
- Wasmer – Universal WebAssembly Runtime17 people · 36 mentions · first linked 2018-12-07
- Wasmer – Universal Binaries Powered by WebAssembly6 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2018-12-08
- WinterJS 1.0 – with Cloudflare Workers and React Server Components support5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-03-11
- Wasmer and Trademarks4 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2022-03-16
- Wasmer vs. Wasmtime4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-09-19
- /products/edge3 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2023-06-15
- Py2wasm – A Python to WASM Compiler3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-04-18
- Edge.js: Running Node Apps Inside a WebAssembly Sandbox3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-03-17
- Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-24
- WinterJS vs. other JavaScript Runtimes3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-11-02
What Hacker News says?
You should talk to the guys at Wasmer: https://wasmer.io/
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on “QuickJS JavaScript Engine”Submitted Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly as a story · 399 points
HN discussionThat's the main reason we should start using WebAssembly for distributing and using packages. Shamless plug: Wasmer [1] and WAPM [2] could help a lot on this quest! [1]: https://wasmer.io/ [2]: https://wapm.io/
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on “Dozens of malicious PyPI packages discovered targeting developers”Submitted Wasmer 3.0 as a story · 297 points
HN discussionhttps://wasmer.io/ https://wasmcloud.com/ https://wasmtime.dev/
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on “Sqlite3 WebAssembly”Submitted Wasmer 2.0 as a story · 209 points
HN discussionHappy to see RustPython making awesome progress! Note: I just realized that they mention wapm in their homepage. We phased out the WAPM CLI in favor of Wasmer ( https://wasmer.io ), so you can simply run in your shell: wasmer run rustpython Or, if you want to try it using the Wasmer JS SDK: import { Wasmer } from "@wasmer/sdk"; let rustpython = Wasmer.fromRegistry("rustpython"); let instance = await rustpython.entry…
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on “RustPython”Submitted Wasmer 5.0 as a story · 198 points
HN discussionThis is awesome! They seem to be using Wasmer [1] under the hood for their WebAssembly/WASI plugin system. I would love to know if the IDE frontend could be compiled to Wasm (using WebGL/WebGPU under the hood) so it could run in the browsers, similarly to Makepad [2] [1] https://wasmer.io/ [2] https://makepad.dev/
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on “Lapce – Fast open-source code editor”Submitted Py2wasm – A Python to WASM Compiler as a story · 193 points
HN discussionIt's awesome to see how more JS runtimes try to approach Wasm. This project reminds me to Static Hermes (the JS engine from Facebook to improve the speed of React Native projects on iOS and Android). I've spent a bit of time trying to review each, so hopefully this analysis will be useful for some readers. What are the main commonalities and differences between Static Hermes and Porffor? * They both aim for JS test2…
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on “Porffor: A from-scratch experimental ahead-of-time JS engine”Submitted Show HN: Compiling C in the browser using WebAssembly as a story · 174 points
HN discussionWell, you need some sort of underlying platform to run primitives on. Wasm just isn't enough, and isn't meant to be. But yes, Wasm is not just for the browser, you can run it in Node. Or a custom runtime: https://wasmer.io/
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on “Porting Zelda Classic to the web”Submitted Wasmer JavaScript SDK as a story · 163 points
HN discussionCompletely! WebAssembly has a great potential outside of the browser. Mozilla has been doing a great work on their posts showcasing this new possibility. Check out Wasmer! https://wasmer.io/ : along with other runtimes we are enabling the use case of WebAssembly programs as standalone applications that can run in any platform, or as libraries to be usable in any programming languages (disclaimer: I work at Wasmer!)
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on “WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation”Submitted Wasmer – Universal WebAssembly Runtime as a story · 154 points
HN discussionThis time we compiled the Python interpreter to WebAssembly. If you are curious on compiling Python to WebAssembly please check py2wasm: https://wasmer.io/posts/py2wasm-a-python-to-wasm-compiler
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on “Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly”Submitted Running PHP fast at the edge with WebAssembly as a story · 116 points
HN discussionAs a side note, Wasmer offers an Edge product that has none of the drawbacks commented when running Python in Cloudflare Workers, providing incredibly fast cold-start times: https://wasmer.io/templates?language=python
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on “Python Cloudflare Workers”Submitted Wasmer and Trademarks as a story · 101 points
HN discussionWasmer ( https://wasmer.io/ ) | Frontend Software Engineers | Hybrid (EU Timezones + Madrid Office) | Full Time At Wasmer we are working on the software that will power the next generation of Cloud Computing platforms using WebAssembly. Similarly to Node.js, we are moving WebAssembly to the server-side but completely emancipated from JavaScript. We are seeking a skilled frontend developer with industrial-strength so…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)”Submitted Wasmer 2.2 as a story · 98 points
HN discussionUnfortunately cosmopolitan wouldn't work for dockerc. Cosmopolitan works as long as you only use it but container runtimes require additional features. Also containers contain arbitrary executables so not sure how that would work either... As for WASM, this is already possible using container2wasm[0] and wasmer[1]'s ability to generate static binaries. [0]: https://github.com/ktock/container2wasm [1]: https://wasmer…
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on “Show HN: dockerc – Docker image to static executable "compiler"”Submitted WASIX, the Superset of WASI Supporting Threads, Processes and Sockets as a story · 75 points
HN discussionThis is super exciting! They also created an awesome playground to try Ruby online [1]... all powered by Wasmer/WASI [2]! [1] https://try.ruby-lang.org/playground/ [2] https://wasmer.io
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on “Ruby 3.2 preview 1 with support for WASM compilation”Submitted Wasmer – Universal Binaries Powered by WebAssembly as a story · 67 points
HN discussionHey, I'm Syrus From Wasmer [1]! I'm really happy to see more people bringing their attention to the Wasm ecosystem. There are tons of opportunities on this space. Regarding WAPM [2] and how its development had become a bit dormant, expect news about it soon. Can't wait to share what we have been working on! [1] https://wasmer.io [2] https://wapm.io
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on “Pay attention to WebAssembly”Submitted WebAssembly on Amazon Lambda: Lessons Learned as a story · 50 points
HN discussionRead the whole blogpost that quote was taken from: https://wasmer.io/posts/wasmer-and-trademarks-extended I don't think this is as much of a smoking gun as it is made out to be.
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on “I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C”Submitted Show HN: Create Native Desktop Apps from WebAssembly as a story · 47 points
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