The State of Zero-Dependency Wasm: A Update
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An update on zero-dependency WebAssembly runtimes wazero (pure-Go, no CGO) and Chicory (pure-Java, no JNI) covering their plans for Wasm 3.0 and other spec proposals, recent performance improvements with benchmark numbers, and new 2025–2026 use cases such as polyglot AI agents, in-core data processing, and distributing portable libraries via Maven/Go modules. The talk also explains practical lessons learned over the last year, current technical challenges, and the maintainers’ roadmaps for keeping high performance without native dependencies.
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