Stof is an open-source runtime for logic you don't own or fully trust. Imagine a JSON document with functions inside, scoped to just the document that contains them. Stof instantiates this doc as a small wasm env, and makes these functions safe to call. They can't access or manipulate anything but their own doc. WebAssembly by itself is large in binary form, requires a lot of tooling, etc. Stof can be sent over the wire easily, is a superset of JSON for compatibility, and keeps the guarantees. I created Stof not to replace a data format or anything, but to be a glue layer for data and distrib…

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