Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web

Post by tschneidereit » Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 3:52 PM UTC

echeese wrote: post #10

tschneidereit wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(Member of the team at Mozilla here ) Yes, that's the list. And the layout of structs, strings, etc is up to the compiler, within the bounds of the restrictions WebAssembly imposes. We'll definitely have a test suite, but this is all early days, so a lot of all that isn't yet in place. And yes, this can be targeted by LLVM-based and other compilers. In fact, Emscripten could use this as the foundation for their POSIX…

Will WASI normalize differences between platforms? e.g. convert argv or paths to a consistent character encoding?

Post by VikingCoder » Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 3:53 PM UTC

Post by tschneidereit » Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 4:00 PM UTC

maxgraey wrote: post #12

WASI layer interface for AssemblyScript from Frank Denis: https://github.com/jedisct1/wasa

Post by londons_explore » Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 4:05 PM UTC

VikingCoder wrote: post #13

WASI will have some interesting milestones ahead of it: * Self-hosting (WASI can run inside WASI) * GCC can run in it * Linux can run in it * Quake can run in it * Chrome can run in it

Post by dboreham » Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 4:06 PM UTC

VikingCoder wrote: post #13

WASI will have some interesting milestones ahead of it: * Self-hosting (WASI can run inside WASI) * GCC can run in it * Linux can run in it * Quake can run in it * Chrome can run in it