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Dev tools · July 25, 2020

Second State VM

High performance secure & portable Rust functions in Node.js

Second State VM launched on July 25, 2020 with 78 votes, #606 of 4,305 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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What it does

SSVM is a high-performance WebAssembly runtime for server-side apps. It is safer and 10x faster than Docker. It supports OS access (WASI), AOT compiler, stateful apps, seamless integration with Node.js, and access to hardware (AI chips).

Use Rust functions in Node.js applications

As hardware miniaturization hits the quantum limit, software performance becomes the driver of growth. Learn to write high performance Rust functions for Node.js Combine Rust's performance, WebAssembly's security and portability, and JavaScript's ease-of-use. Learn a new skill. Speed up your web applications! Subscribe to our weekly email newsletter on server-side WebAssembly and Rust to stay on top of the industry trends. SSVM is the fastest WebAssembly virtual machine. It is also much faster than Docker in both cold start and at runtime. Fast and safe AI inference in Node.js, written in Rust. Run pre-trained Tensorflow models to classify images & detect faces. Privacy-first and scalable…from secondstate.io

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