wasmerio

    wasmerio/wasmer

    πŸš€ Fast and lightweight sandboxes for your apps and AI agents

    ios
    emscripten
    linux
    macos
    rust
    wasi
    Rust
    MIT
    21.2K stars
    1.0K forks
    21.2K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 28, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 27 days ago, with 243 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #63 in the weekly ranking the week of Apr 12, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a fast, secure WebAssembly runtime enabling lightweight sandboxes for applications and AI agents across multiple platforms.
    • Offers near-native execution speed with secure defaults and pluggable support for WASI and WASIX standards.
    • Use for embedding WebAssembly runtimes in diverse programming languages to run portable code securely.
    • Use for deploying sandboxed applications on cloud, edge, desktop, and browser environments with minimal overhead.
    • Use for developing and testing WebAssembly packages and modules with easy installation and extensive SDK support.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    Wasmer is a blazing fast and secure WebAssembly runtime that enables incredibly lightweight containers to run anywhere: from Desktop to the Cloud, Edge and your browser.

    Note: You can also try Wasmer online in wasmer.sh

    You can start by running Cowsay:

    There are many more available packages, such as wasmer/python or quickjs. Create your own package, or explore packages from the community: https://wasmer.io/explore

    Excerpt from the wasmerio/wasmer README on GitHub (MIT license). Β© its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    1.0K+39

    Open issues

    291+56

    Compared with peers in iOS

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