The best webassembly runtimes, according to hackers
5 webassembly runtimes recommended in Hacker News comments over the past year, ranked by how many separate people recommend each one.
- Most recommendedWasmtime16 people recommend it
- Least regretPollen WASM runtime10 recommend, 0 criticize
All webassembly runtimes
- WasmtimeDevelopers pick Wasmtime to run WebAssembly with fine-grained sandbox limits and wide standards support, for plugins and server workloads. Critics say its fuel metering adds a large performance penalty.16recommend
- Pollen WASM runtimeSingle-binary WASM runtime with no control plane; the cluster balances compute on its own. Caveat: unclear which WASM feature sets are supported.10recommend
- PollenDevelopers recommend Pollen for its sandboxed WASM design and pure Go build. The most common caveat is that its purpose and use cases are unclear.8recommend
- wazeroPure Go WebAssembly runtime that people embed to run sandboxed plugins, with a well-regarded compiler and long-standing context cancellation support.7recommend
- PopcornCompiles the Erlang VM (OTP/BEAM) to WebAssembly so Elixir and Erlang code can run in the browser. People recommend it as helpful, and its live demo lets you try it.5recommend