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Apr 2, 2025 · Cloud Native

How Hyperlight Wasm Enables Near-Instant, Secure Serverless Apps on Windows and Linux

Hyperlight Wasm, an open‑source lightweight virtual machine manager built with Rust, combines a micro‑VM and a WebAssembly runtime to launch secure, isolated applications in 1‑2 ms on Windows and Linux, offering fast startup, strong sandboxing, and upcoming CNCF support, while noting current platform limits.