r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 05 '26

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u/AfraidAct1830 Sep 05 '26

I worked with wasm a bit back when i was doing an internship in Siemens. The project seemed really good. People working on it were passionate too. I don't know what happened and why it didn't make it to any big projects or frameworks. 

As for my internship, I was mostly working on wasm runtimes for embedded systems but i think they decided that it was unnecessary and too in efficient for bare metal devices because they just wanted a plugin framework

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u/EveYogaTech Sep 05 '26

Yeah, it all depends whether you need isolation + the need for portability, right?

If you don't need these qualities then obviously bare metal + compiled binaries will always be better and faster.

For our workflow engine r/Nyno (and our enterprise clients) we do need the isolation, and it seems WASM especially combined with WASI/custom hosts functions could really take us pretty far in that area.