Spent a lot of time over the weekend getting webassembly jammed into my brain and tooling up.
I looked hard at mono-wasm (now built into the mainline distribution). It was generating huge wasm files, so putting lots of code I wasn't explicitly adding into it. I have to look much harder at this. It seems like they're making an attempt to get the .net foundation classes implemented (though a lot of the code basically throws a "Not Implemented" error). Still looks promising. I'd rather the first gen emissaries be c#. It's not really focused at WASI and embedding yet. I think the emphasis is mostly for browser use and the DOM.
Discovered that there's a PyPi module with wasmtime in it, so I can embed that and make a test framework. Trying to get my hello-world modules working in Rust and establishing the tool-chain for all of that.
They split out the wasmtime .net framework into a new package. I think perhaps that they utterly redid the API, though it seems much easier to use. It doesn't have to discover the host-wasi modules via reflection, so I can have a call which sets up which api's are available to each class of emissary (a method call can define each method).
I need to learn webassembly assembler. It's been a good 40+ years since I did assembler regularly, but this one might end up being the ultimate superset assembler. It would be interesting to build a real assembler for it (rather than the lisp-like fully regularized syntax it has now).
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