smolvm has better bootup time (<200ms), secrets handling, and egress control compared to lima. Among other things like native branching/forking of the vm itself.

As for the rug pull concern, I'm committed to open source with 2 pieces of evidence.

1. oss license 2. Business model is accruing revenue from offering hosted service + inbound due to the open source project. The business model + open source is aligned.

disclaimer: maintainer of smol machines