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I see the main advantage in this as running a polyglot application as if its native. For example if you are making a Rust application, you can have a plugin architecture where the plugins run inside a wasm compiled python interpreter.

I dont know if doing this directly and cross platform is as easy without wasmer

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Just like CLR, JVM and GraalVM, nothing new besides WebAssembly marketing.

Absolutely. But I think wasmer is a lightweight VM compared to those.

Wasm is structurally similar to those things, yes, but is so much faster that it is actually categorically different.

Of course it is so much faster, it does almost nothing.

I hope your cynicism is a force for good in your life.

Indeed, it helps me to stay away from hype tech until it finally settles mainstream adoption.

The good part is that I save lots of failed projects when that isn't the case, and get consulting gigs to port back into what everyone keeps using.

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