Show HN: I built a WASM-console using WebAssembly and tinygo

Cool! I also built a WASM console a while ago using Zig, Clang, and slightly modifying various BSD utilities. There is a browser demo at https://cowasm.sh/ , but you could also run it in a terminal and access your local files (similar to what your WASM-console does). Anyways, thanks for sharing your console.

Re: Show HN: I built a WASM-console using WebAssembly and tinygo

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Post by skybrian » Tue, Jul 09, 2024, 9:50 PM UTC

Please don't use animated gifs to demonstrate what your project does. It's hard to read while it's moving. A shell transcript is better.

Re: Show HN: I built a WASM-console using WebAssembly and tinygo

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Post by rajatjindal0083 » Wed, Jul 10, 2024, 2:05 AM UTC

skybrian wrote: post #5

Please don't use animated gifs to demonstrate what your project does. It's hard to read while it's moving. A shell transcript is better.

thank you for your feedback. I will change that back to a shell transcript.

Re: Show HN: I built a WASM-console using WebAssembly and tinygo

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Post by rajatjindal0083 » Wed, Jul 10, 2024, 2:07 AM UTC

rgbrgb wrote: post #3

rajatjindal0083 wrote: post #2

I am the author of wasm-console. happy to answer any questions you may have.

what is wasm-console / what is a wasmshell?

wasm-console (formally wasmshell) is a webassembly component that can help you explore the filesystem, make network requests at the moment.

The idea was born when trying to debug why my component could not access a particular file and I really wanted to be able to do "ls" on the filesystem to see what is there.

Re: Show HN: I built a WASM-console using WebAssembly and tinygo

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Post by rajatjindal0083 » Wed, Jul 10, 2024, 2:59 AM UTC

williamstein wrote: post #4

Cool! I also built a WASM console a while ago using Zig, Clang, and slightly modifying various BSD utilities. There is a browser demo at https://cowasm.sh/ , but you could also run it in a terminal and access your local files (similar to what your WASM-console does). Anyways, thanks for sharing your console.

that is so cool. I will try it out as well. thank you for sharing.