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24 alternatives to Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary
Distributed WASM runtime. Workloads place themselves over a zero-trust mesh. One static binary. - Sambigeara/pollen
Pollen is a distributed WebAssembly runtime that operates without a centralized control plane, packaged as a single binary. It enables developers to run and coordinate WASM applications across multiple machines in a… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly - lunatic-solutions/lunatic
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, I built a runtime to isolate untrusted code using wasm sandboxes. Basically, it protects your host system from problems that untrusted code can cause. We’ve had a great discussion about sandboxing in Python lately that elaborates a bit more on the problem [1]. In TypeScript, wasm integration is even more natural thanks to the close proximity between both ecosystems. The core is built in Rust. On top of that, I use WASI 0.2 via wasmtime and the component model, along with custom SDKs that keep things as idiomatic as possible. For example, in Python we have a simple decorator:…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've just released an early version off my project I've been working on for a few months now and would love some feedback. https://github.com/fourlexboehm/faasta I was surprised there isn't yet an open/source and standards compliant way to host wasi-http functions in a way that takes advantages of WASM, a multi tenanted application. If you're not familiar with wasi, Compared to something like AWS Lambda, this approach is much more efficient as a single process can serve 1000s of function invocations concurrently and asynchronously, instead requiring an entire VM.…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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High-performance serverless functions for Rust & WebAssembly
2020 · secondstate.io · its alternatives →
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A lightweight engine for durable execution / deterministic workflows I built with Rust, wasmtime and the WASM Component Model. Its main use is running reliable, long-running workflows that can automatically resume after failures. Looking for feedback on the approach and potential use cases!
2025 · obeli.sk · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, this is Will and David from Fortress (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41426998). We use a lot of async Rust internally, and created this library out of a need for an async-aware concurrent hashmap since there weren’t many available in the Rust ecosystem. Whirlwind is a sharded HashMap with a fully asynchronous API. Just as dashmap is a replacement for std::sync::RwLock, whirlwind aims to be a replacement for tokio::sync::RwLock. It has a similar design and performance characteristics to dashmap, but seems to perform better in read-heavy workloads with tokio's…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · mappedbus.io · its alternatives →
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Earlier this year, we released our open-source game engine [0] built with Rust, WebAssembly, and WebGPU. Today, we’re happy to announce the Ambient platform, which brings web deployment, server hosting, and more to the runtime. With Ambient, you can make a game, deploy it to the browser in one command, share your URL and instantly play with others, no downloads or installs needed. Our WASM use is innovative; it is being used as both a sandboxed runtime for user code, and as a way to run the entire Ambient runtime in the browser. This, paired with our ECS data model, enables a highly modular…
2023 · ambient.run · its alternatives →
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A WebAssembly runtime embedded in Godot game engine projects. Interact with Wasm modules from GDScript. Accessing Wasm modules via GDScript provides the following benefits. - Sandboxed environment allows safely loading zero-trust mods/extensions to a project. - Single target means that Wasm modules can be built from any language e.g. Rust, Go, AssemblyScript and the single binary can be run on all platforms. - Fast execution compared to GDScript allows for offloading compute-heavy operations or running bots/mods/etc. at high FPS. This might be useful for loading mods, bot AI,…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Show HN: TinyWasm - A tiny WebAssembly Runtime written in Rust Hi HN! I'm excited to share TinyWasm (https://github.com/explodingcamera/tinywasm), a WebAssembly Interpreter I developed for my final university project. The main goal of this project was to deepen my understanding of WebAssembly and interpreter design. TinyWasm successfully passes all the official WebAssembly 1.0 tests and also includes features from future proposals such as like bulk memory operations. Initially more of a research project, TinyWasm focuses on simplicity and portability. It has minimal…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Run WebAssembly made for outside the browser, inside the browser.
2022 · runno.dev · its alternatives →
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Actor runtime and distributed systems framework for Rust - LeonHartley/Coerce-rs
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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WASM sandbox for running LLM-generated code safely. Agents get a bash-like shell and can only call tools you provide, with constraints you define. No Docker, no subprocess, no SaaS — just pip install amla-sandbox
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A (WIP) WebAssembly System Interface implementation for Deno - caspervonb/deno-wasi
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An R7RS Scheme implemented in WebAssembly . Contribute to PollRobots/scheme development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I built Oxyde because I was tired of duplicating my models. If you use FastAPI, you know the drill. You define Pydantic models for your API, then define separate ORM models for your database, then write converters between them. SQLModel tries to fix this but it's still SQLAlchemy underneath. Tortoise gives you a nice Django-style API but its own model system. Django ORM is great but welded to the framework. I wanted something simple: your Pydantic model IS your database model. One class, full validation on input and output, native type hints, zero duplication. The query API is…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A self-hostable Wasm sandbox for JavaScript workers.
Jun 2026 · kyushu.dev · its alternatives →
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Godot-based Rust multi-PTY emulator desktop application - godot-pty/gpty
Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I’m excited to share Antfly: a distributed document database and search engine written in Go that combines full-text, vector, and graph search. Use it for distributed multimodal search and memory, or for local dev and small deployments. I built this to give developers a single-binary deployment with native ML inference (via a built-in service called Termite), meaning you don't need external API calls for vector search unless you want to use them. Some things that might interest this crowd: Capabilities: Multimodal indexing (images, audio, video), MongoDB-style in-place updates, and…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An ultra-fast, single-binary MCP server written in Rust as a lightweight alternative to Node.js/Python. - StamManif/mcp-stama
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN — I just open-sourced Hibana and hibana-agent. Hibana is an Affine MPST runtime for Rust: - global choreography -> compile-time projection -> role-local execution - core is no_std / no_alloc-oriented - deterministic route/offer/recv/decode model Repo: https://github.com/hibanaworks/hibana Demo (AI control with session-typed branching): https://github.com/hibanaworks/hibana-agent
Feb 2026 · hibanaworks.dev · its alternatives →
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High performance secure & portable Rust functions in Node.js
2020 · secondstate.io · its alternatives →
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🐹🕸️ WebAssembly runtime for Go. Contribute to wasmerio/wasmer-go development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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