- One of the fastest WebAssembly VMs on the market (based on LLVM AOT)
- WasmEdge feature extensions
- Network sockets (Rust and JavaScript SDKs)
- Async polling (for Rust Future and JS async)
- Tensorflow inference (Tutorial)
- Key value storage
- Database connector
- Gas meters for resource constraints
- JavaScript support
- ES6 module and std API support
- Implement JS APIs in Rust (Tutorial)
- Import C native shared library functions as JS functions (Tutorial)
- Cloud native management and orchestration
- CRI-O and Kubernetes compatibility
- Sidecar apps in Kubernetes-based service meshes
- Dapr microservices (Tutorial)
- Cross-platform support
- Linux OSes dated back to 2010 for both x86 and ARM CPUs
- Mac OS X for both x86 and m1 CPUs
- Windows
- Microkernel and RTOS (e.g., the highly secure seL4 microkernel)
- Easy extensibility
- Easy to embed into a host application
- Embed WasmEdge functions in C, Go, Rust, Node.js and Python host applications
- Embedded function runtime for service mesh proxies (e.g., proxy-wasm for Envoy and MOSN proxies)