Love/hate with this one. How was I supposed to follow this? I tried, and few things were publicly visible for nearly two years. I last checked in march and it looked like no progress had been made. That makes me very suspicious of wasiv3. Funny enough, I already implemented a bunch of the promises (pun not intended) and think that freestanding wasm with custom integrations is the more likely future. The promise of wa…
My guess is that there's a bit of a circular issue, where the team doesn't particularly see lots of good/useful feedback when they do try hard to explain the work, and drive-by folks like me and you don't have much to see or grasp at when we do take a pass through the repos to try to see what's going on. They do have regularly scheduled meetings though, which are open attendance, if you want to try to ask in person for more help: I don't know how that would go, but I doubt you've tried.
It has been nice to have LLMs for the past year, which have helped summarize what's been going on in various wasm repositories.
That said, I agree with you on two fronts. Yes: dynamic hotload and linking is very high on my want list. Trying to get to a place where we have lightweight isolates like things that can use existing loaded libraries has been the northstar, and one I'd love to see start to become real.
Second, it is really hard to figure out what is and isn't possible, to assess and try the tools to see how far you can get. There's also a lot of old documentation floating around, so if you for example go use rust there's a 33% chance you'll happen upon material that points you in the wrong direction.