Features

• One of the fastest WebAssembly VMs on the market (based on LLVM AOT)
• WasmEdge feature extensions
• Network sockets (Rust and JavaScript SDKs)
• Async polling (for Rust Future and JS async)
• Tensorflow inference (Tutorial)
• Key value storage
• Database connector
• Gas meters for resource constraints
• JavaScript support
• ES6 module and std API support
• Implement JS APIs in Rust (Tutorial)
• Import C native shared library functions as JS functions (Tutorial)
• Cloud native management and orchestration
• CRI-O and Kubernetes compatibility
• Sidecar apps in Kubernetes-based service meshes
• Dapr microservices (Tutorial)
• Cross-platform support
• Linux OSes dated back to 2010 for both x86 and ARM CPUs
• Mac OS X for both x86 and m1 CPUs
• Windows
• Microkernel and RTOS (e.g., the highly secure seL4 microkernel)
• Easy extensibility
• Build customized runtimes with native functions in C or GO
• Easy to embed into a host application
• Embed WasmEdge functions in C, Go, Rust, Node.js and Python host applications
• Embedded function runtime for service mesh proxies (e.g., proxy-wasm for Envoy and MOSN proxies)