WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernel

What's the point ?! It's insane. Who on earth would use that?

I don’t think it’s that big a stretch of the imagination to see how this could be used in smaller pieces than the entirety of Linux.

I can think of a few uses quite easily:

- Testing a distro or specific software without downloading it

- Educational use (teaching Linux basics on Chromebooks etc)

- Bypassing restrictions on installing certain software

These questions are the number two most important questions to ask, in software. The sanity/insanity part is not so relevant, but it is necessary to point out that, pretty much a huge percentage of software any of us uses on a daily basis, started off with someone having a random insanity, answering those two questions with a working binary, and thus setting the idea towards becoming normal and thus sane.

Soon enough, WASM may just well be the #1 platform upon which to run a Linux on a Desktop ..

Because someone can... While I don't see a practical use myself, beyond educational or experimental, that doesn't mean nobody else could, should or would.

In the end, it's kinda cool.

Yeah. Basically any code you can run on Linux you can now run on a browser with a lot less work.

Realistically, with quite a bit more work (compared to e.g. v86), but at much higher performance.

Like Lynx?

Ah, thank you!

I think this is really cool but I was struggling to think of a way it could be useful. Your last two suggestions seem especially pertinent.

Yo dog