WebAssembly

WebAssembly is an open, industry-wide collaborative effort to combine the performance and security of an assembly-like language with the convenience of high-level languages. It could spark a revolution in cloud development.

The challenges hindering distributed application development, deployment and maintenance have given rise to a new paradigm in which WebAssembly plays a prominent role in the future of cloud native distributed computing.

Wasm was designed to virtualize particular binary formats and libraries in a way that eliminates the need to continuously update vulnerable application components.

Stop saying WASM is the end of containers, start saying WASM plus containers