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Yet there are enough for profit companies on its genesis and foundation.

As for Docker, it is basically Java Application Servers full with YAML spaghetti to the point it makes me miss Websphere 5.

Or even better, mainframe and microcomputers language environments like on IBM i, z/OS and Unisys ClearPath.

Maybe its founders should have learned what preceded it.



The founders know very clearly what preceded it as they're working with the authors of these previous attempts (JVM, CLR, etc) to integrate their stacks with Wasm.


And yet they claim novelty while walking used trails...


Most of the entire tech stack all the way down to transistors had for profit companies involved in their genisis and foundation.


Except the " Wasm is not the product of a for-profit company." seems to be unaware of it.




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