Why Containers and WebAssembly Work Well Together

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Developers favor the path of least resistance when building, shipping, and deploying their applications. It’s one of the reasons why containerization exists — to help developers easily run cross-platform apps by bundling their code and dependencies together.

It leverages its JavaScript, C++, and Rust compatibility to help developers deploy client-server web applications.

Developers use WebAssembly and WASI to do things like: Build cross-platform applications and games

While Docker excels at building and deploying cross-platform cloud applications, Wasm is well-suited to portable, binary code compilation for browser-based applications.

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