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Wasmer's Goal
- WebAssembly, initially designed for browsers, offers speed, sandboxing, and universality.
- Wasmer leverages these benefits for server-side applications.
Syrus's Inspiration for Wasmer
- Syrus Akbary, Wasmer's founder, faced challenges extending his Python GraphQL framework.
- Targeting WebAssembly allowed him to support multiple languages uniformly.
Wasm's Server-Side Advantage
- Server-side WebAssembly addresses challenges with Docker and Kubernetes on diverse chipsets.
- Emulation slows down performance on non-Intel architectures.