WebAssembly and Elixir

[blatyo]

@richardpringle

What about running wasm modules on the beam? I think that would be useful for portability of code. For instance, it would be great if I could get the fault-tolerance guarantees of the BEAM by running a containerized version of something in the beam itself (something like SQLite for example).

I don’t know that it’s impossible, but I feel like it wouldn’t be very performant. I don’t think the BEAM is optimized to perform the types of operations that are necessary to run WASM code.