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I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C
preter in CJan 26, 2025 For the last 6 months, I’ve been spending my (limited) free time on evenings and weekends writing a WebAssembly VM in C. After repeatedly throwing away small side-projects, this was an extremely productive experience for me as an engineer.
For the last 6 months, I’ve been spending my (limited) free time on evenings and weekends writing a WebAssembly VM in C. After repeatedly throwing away small side-projects, this was an extremely productive experience for me as an engineer. WebAssembly is a standardized instruction set and bytecode format for a virtual stack machine that is designed to run untrusted client-side code in Web browsers at near-native speed. Wasm’s secure sandbox offers a lightweight alternative to containers and virtual machines in the cloud: Fastly and Shopify have built their Edge Compute and Functions products on top of WebAssembly engines.
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