perlin-network/life

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Life is a secure and fast WebAssembly virtual machine written in pure Go, featuring an interpreter and an experimental AOT compilation engine (Polymerase). It is designed for running sandboxed Wasm modules in decentralized applications with fine-grained control over resources like instruction cycles and memory.

Use cases

• run webassembly modules inside a go application
• sandbox untrusted wasm code with resource limits
• execute smart contracts compiled to wasm
• embed a wasm interpreter in a cross-platform app without native dependencies
• aot-compile wasm modules for faster execution
• run wasm programs on mobile or embedded platforms

When to choose

• you need a pure-Go wasm runtime with no native dependencies
• you need fine-grained sandboxing and resource metering for untrusted wasm code
• you are building decentralized applications that execute wasm smart contracts
• you need to cross-compile wasm execution to many platforms

When to avoid

• you need a spec-complete, actively maintained wasm runtime (project last released in 2022)
• you need JIT performance comparable to wasmtime or wasmer
• you need wasm features beyond the core execution semantics
• your project is not in Go

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

interpreter compiler wasm developer-tools developer-tools programming-languages blockchain cross-platform go cross-platform windows webassembly-vm wasm-runtime aot-compilation smart-contracts decentralized-applications sandboxed-execution sandboxing linux macos android ios

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