Developers at Wasmer are betting big on WebAssembly, building a runtime intended to do for WebAssembly what Node.js did for JavaScript – establish it server-side. The company also has set its sights on a package manager for WebAssembly binaries.
The Wasmer runtime is intended to make WebAssembly a universal target for compilation by allowing developers to use WebAssembly “anywhere,” similar to the JVM, which provides a portable execution environment for Java applications.