This is basically a package repo of WASM file(s), which seem to have been compiled from Rust source mostly, but other language that can be compiled to WASM would work too.
And from what I've read the CLI downloads the WASM and runs it.
The "runs it" part is interesting, as it's cross platform - so does it run a JS engine, e.g like V8 or NodeJS?
I don't personally like the idea, esp since Rust can compile to all those supported platforms anyway, and the native code would be so much faster.
It says on the website that it is opensource, since 2019, but the Github account has zero repos.
The website looks flash, but has many spelling errors and typos, and so if little things like this get through after 3 years of development, then the chances of malicious code getting through is very high.
Wasmer Inc (they run wapm.io) basically wants to own the Wasm ecosystem the way that NPM has owned the JavaScript world. This isn't run by an org like Apache, or CNCF. They are VC backed and and have had some internal shakeups, a story about this was posted to HN awhile ago.
The site doesn't inspire a lot of confidence, even the about page results in a 500 error. https://wapm.io/about
Isn’t the big difference between running some random rust from the internet, and a WASM file, the sandbox in which WASM runs. This has some security advantages. And as you also point out, it’s like an abstraction over various languages which also can generate WASM (Go, Swift, C#, etc).
And from what I've read the CLI downloads the WASM and runs it. The "runs it" part is interesting, as it's cross platform - so does it run a JS engine, e.g like V8 or NodeJS?
I don't personally like the idea, esp since Rust can compile to all those supported platforms anyway, and the native code would be so much faster.
It says on the website that it is opensource, since 2019, but the Github account has zero repos.
The website looks flash, but has many spelling errors and typos, and so if little things like this get through after 3 years of development, then the chances of malicious code getting through is very high.