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But please don't forget to wrap it in at least some VM! /s

That's not even funny, as in real life people would run something like that actually in a VM.

So we have now: HW memory protection -> HW virtualization -> VM -> OS -> Docker -> WASM -> language runtime -> some code snippet.

Things become quite crazy these days, to be honest…

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I totally agree with you on how ridiculous this is. But it's all about trade offs in the end. In the case of Docker+Wasm you get portability and delivery speed.

You build one image for the wasm32/wasi platform and now it can run on any architecture that has Docker, just like that. And also you don't carry the whole OS baggage of a typical container. Only the language runtime. So download times are faster.

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Lastly, the Docker deployment is just the easiest way for a WASM application to reach people. They can try it out without the necessity to setup and support a WASI runtime.

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