WASM vs Unikernels
WASM repeats a lot of the security issues from the 90s but that doesn't mean that wasm competes with unikernels. You can actually run wasm inside of a unikernel. Check out wasmer.
WASM
No Dynamic Linking
32 Bit only
4Gb Mem Limit
No Threads
No TLS
No Read-Only Memory
Write to 0x0
No ASLR
Few Languages
UNIKERNELS
TCP/UDP/Raw sockets
Dynamic Linking
64 Bit Only
16M Tb Mem Limit
Multi-Threaded
TLS
Read-Only Memory
Can't write to 0x0
ASLR
Language Agonstic
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