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In my experience Wasmer is generally disliked by the rest of the WASM community. There’s a long list of reasons for this, including attempting to copyright the term WASM and pushing their own proprietary specs and calling them “standards” while not implementing existing standards.

Their main benefit, from what I can tell, is their “retargetable” compiler architecture, but Wasmtime is improving here as well. Wasmtime is also generally faster at implementing standards.

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I wish to live the day where we can incentivize one ecosystem without having to trash another.

This is not a zero-sum game.

If you find Wasmer useful, use it! If you don’t and you prefer others, feel free to use them. There are plenty of choices.

Happy holidays!

I would say that this landing page on your company’s website is unnecessarily trashing wasmtime in the headline

https://wasmer.io/wasmer-vs-wasmtime

Preaching water, drinking wine.

Classic.

No intend of trashing (in marketing pages titles tend to be more flashy).

In any case I just updated it. Happy holidays!

Is it just me or is it weird to show a faster startup speed as a bigger bar?

I thought it was slower until I saw the 1000x. Even 1000x seems kinda meaningless.

None of those are actual answers to the criticism posted by the parent, so it's hard to really care even if it's wrapped around a loving tone.

Happy holidays to you as well!

Thanks!

I sometimes assume people have the same context as I do, and your comment made me realize that it was not the case. Here's some context: https://wasmer.io/posts/wasmer-and-trademarks

Regarding standards, I assume the mention is referring to Wasmer push for WASIX [1]. Which is a specification & implementation that welcomes anyone to participate (even on it's governance model), so I don't think the stance of the previous comment is accurate.

[1] https://wasix.org/

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