Ah it's these guys that tried and still try to hijack the glory of webassembly just for their startup to succeed. Wasmer is doomed to fail cause it's leadership smells fishy.
Btw a packaging solution has already started to be designed by the people that actually care about the wasm ecosystem, so it's not going to be wapm.
Hi, I'm Syrus from Wasmer. I usually try not to get drawn into hate comments that don't add any value, but I'll make an exception today as it's sunny here in San Francisco!
We care deeply about the Wasm ecosystem. In fact, we care so much that we are wary of putting it at mercy of the big tech.
Wasm is a beautiful community that should embrace many points of view, starting from the Web and permeating back to the servers.
I think is a strength to collaborate, to let developers with different points of view discuss without forcing one unique point of view on all.
Unfortunately it will not be a surprise for some to learn that certain players on the industry want to force their unique perspective on the rest, where only "one way" is the right way of doing things. I'm betting my horses (I have two parked in the hallway), that the packaging initiative that you are talking about comes from these groups.
Thankfully, Wasmer is probably one of the few companies with great context on how to do a Package Manager in WebAssembly (we started it 3 years ago, and got tons of learnings since then!), so just trying to replicate without collaboration seems like a big mistake (best of luck to them there!).
In any case, I'm not the only person that feels this way and I know this feeling is shared by big part of the Wasm community.
Btw a packaging solution has already started to be designed by the people that actually care about the wasm ecosystem, so it's not going to be wapm.