wasi VS cargo-wasi

Compare wasi vs cargo-wasi and see what are their differences.

wasi

Experimental WASI API bindings for Rust (by bytecodealliance)

cargo-wasi

A lightweight Cargo subcommand to build Rust code for the `wasm32-wasi` target (by bytecodealliance)
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wasi cargo-wasi
1 2
230 439
10.9% 1.6%
6.3 3.3
24 days ago 6 months ago
Rust Rust
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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wasi

Posts with mentions or reviews of wasi. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-02.

cargo-wasi

Posts with mentions or reviews of cargo-wasi. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-18.
  • Rust + WASM + Typescript [+ React]
    7 projects | /r/rust | 18 Jul 2023
    There are many options, but what worked best for me is compiling with cargo-wasi and loading the resulting Wasm file with browser_wasi_shim. Using wasm32-wasi instead of wasm32-unknown-unknown requires a bit more work (the communication with JS has to be set up manually), but gives the flexibility of having just a Wasm file that can be dropped in and loaded dynamically. (There's wit-bindgen for generating wrapping code according to an interface definition but I didn't have much success with it.)
  • #![no_std] with WASI is more complicated than I thought it would be
    7 projects | dev.to | 2 Jun 2021
    I use cargo-wasi to build it:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing wasi and cargo-wasi you can also consider the following projects:

wee_alloc - The Wasm-Enabled, Elfin Allocator

compiler-builtins - Porting `compiler-rt` intrinsics to Rust

WASI - WebAssembly System Interface

wasmer - 🚀 The leading Wasm Runtime supporting WASIX, WASI and Emscripten