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gc
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Bring garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly
It may take some time for WasmGC to be usable by .NET. Based on the discussions the first version of WasmGC does not have a good way to handle a few .NET specific scenarios, and said scenarios are "post-post-mvp". [0]
My concern, of course, is that there is not much incentive for those features to be added if .NET is the only platform that needs them... at that point having a form of 'include' (to where a specific GC version can just be cached and loaded by another WASM assembly) would be more useful, despite the pain it would create.
[0] - https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/issues/77
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WasmGC – Compile and run GC languages such as Kotlin, Java in Chrome browser
Yes, that's definitely true: a single GC will not be optimal for everything, or even possible. Atm interior pointers are not supported at all, for example, but they are on the roadmap for later:
https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/main/proposals/gc/Pos...
What launched now is enough WasmGC to support a big and useful set of languages (Java, Kotlin, Dart, OCaml, Scheme), but a lot more work will be required here!
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Learn WebAssembly by writing small programs
GC proposal is from 2018: https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals/issues/16 and there’s code: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/O...
Seems like an awefully long time for progress to be made, given all the possibilities it would unlock.
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The state of modern Web development and perspectives on improvements
First is the size. Writing a server-side and client-side program is possible with Rust, and the resulting WASM package will be small enough. At the same time, Microsoft Blazor converts C# code to WASM, but the client delivery has to include the reduced .NET runtime, taking several megabytes for a script. The same is true for GoLang, even with an attempt to reduce the runtime delivery in TinyGo WASM. Developers want to work with their favorite languages, whether it is Java, Kotlin, Dart, C#, F#, Swift, Ruby, Python, C, C++, GoLang, or Rust. These languages produce groups of runtimes. For example, JVM and .NET have many common parts, Ruby and Python are dynamically interpreted at runtime, and all mentioned depend on automatic garbage collection. For smaller WASM packages, browser vendors can include extended runtime implementations, for example, by delivering a general garbage collector as part of WASM. Garbage collection support by WASM is currently in progress: WASM GC, .NET WASM Notes.
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Douglas Crockford: “We should stop using JavaScript”
My understanding is that the main limitation is technical. WASM doens't do GC or the host system calling conventions and cannot interact directly with object from Javascript because of this. However, this is being worked[0] on and will be solved eventually. Even without this the performance overhead of bridging to JS is low enough that WASM frameworks can beat out React.
0: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/main/proposals/gc/Ove...
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Question: WasmGC and state shared with JS with Kotlin/wasm or Multiplatform?
I’ve just watched a video on YouTube from Google I/O 2023 on Flutter for the web. Kevin Moore explains that Flutter can compile to Wasm, but now that GC support has been added to the standard and WasmGC is supported in Chromium and Firefox, I’m quite intrigued.
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Will implementing garbage collection in WebAssembly speed up Blazor?
I have found the main thread about using WebAssembly GC in C#: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/issues/77. If I understand it correctly, it is not possible to use the current prototype version of GC in C#.
- GC Extension for WebAssembly
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Blazor United - When it ships it would be the most glorious way to do web with .NET
The .net team has given their notes on it, the concern is more on the memory layout from what I remember. Though it may be possible still. The runtime would likely still ship some gc code, but only a subset for cases not supported by the wasm gc itself and a few more for interfacing with the gc service, which overall should still result on smaller payloads compared to current sizes.
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Kernel-WASM: Sandboxed kernel mode WebAssembly runtime for Linux
I assume that's one of the parts of the work done at https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc - not happening any soon yet, but it'll eventually be done.
binaryen
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Bring garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly
The Binaryen wasm optimizer (mentioned in the article) is always open for contributions,
https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen
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Random Testing of WebAssembly Implementations Using Semantically Valid Programs
The end of the related work section cites both wasm-smith and the Binaryen fuzzer (https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen/wiki/Fuzzing) and says, "They both provide a fuzzer that turns a stream of bytes into a WebAssembly module in order to test implementations. Their fuzzers always generate semantically valid test cases, but lack the targeting and tuning that Xsmith provides."
I look forward to reading more about how they do the targeting and tuning.
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Web assembly book?
Binaryen or the LLVM of wasm: https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen
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You can reduce web build file size by 4mb by using Binaryen
Download Binaryen
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What's the best way to generate WASM programmatically?
Probably https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen/, there were various rust bindings to it.
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Build a WebAssembly Language for Fun and Profit: Code Generation
The final phase of our compiler is code generation. This phase takes the AST and converts it to a set of executable instructions. In our case, WebAssembly. To accomplish this, we are going to use a popular WebAssembly compiler toolchain called binaryen.
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Build a WebAssembly Language for Fun and Profit: Lexing
In this guide, we will be using TypeScript and NodeJS. The concepts are highly portable, so feel free to use the environment you're most comfortable with. Our only major dependency, binaryen, has a simple C API. You are welcome to skip ahead to the next section if you're using a different language.
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Rust and WebAssembly without a Bundler
What are the size and performance benefits of processing the Wasm payload with wasm-opt?
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Is WebAssembly Text (WAT) Just Another IR?
I would recommend looking into binaryen as it has it's own IR and can perform optimizations over it. It's also simpler than LLVM and has the option to produce binaries with debug names.
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What are the advantages or disadvantages of compiling to VM Bytecode vs native machine code?
You can also use binaryen to optimize your wasm output
What are some alternatives?
dotnet-webgl-sample - .NET + WebAssembly + WebGL = 💖
wasm-bindgen - Facilitating high-level interactions between Wasm modules and JavaScript
ASP.NET Core - ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
wasi-sdk - WASI-enabled WebAssembly C/C++ toolchain
wasm3 - 🚀 A fast WebAssembly interpreter and the most universal WASM runtime
wasi-libc - WASI libc implementation for WebAssembly
simd - Branch of the spec repo scoped to discussion of SIMD in WebAssembly
EasyOCR - Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.
Mono - Mono open source ECMA CLI, C# and .NET implementation.
workers-wasi
v86 - x86 PC emulator and x86-to-wasm JIT, running in the browser
asyncify - Standalone Asyncify helper for Binaryen