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		IshKebab on Nov 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wasmer 3.0 Webassembly can be targeted by C/C++ and Rust. It's also designed with security in mind. The JVM is not a reliable sandbox.

sanxiyn on Nov 23, 2022 [–]

JVM also can be targeted by C/C++ and Rust. In fact NestedVM was published in 2004... I concede WebAssembly does sandboxing better.

IshKebab on Nov 25, 2022 | [–]

There's also the fact that the JVM is huge (~160MB download) but a WASM runtime is like 4MB.

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