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interface-types
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WebAssembly Playground
Some things that might greatly increase wasm usage and overall tooling:
1) Tools that run docker containers and serverless function services (like AWS lambda) to support providing a .wasm files instead
2) Garbage collection in the runtime to make GC languages easier to port to wasm
3) Dynamically typed languages (NodeJS, Python, Ruby) being able to compile to webassembly directly instead of porting the runtime to webassembly and then running the code through the runtime. This is a big ask though, basically needs to redesign the runtime completely
4) wasm-DOM bindings will enable other languages to do HTML rendering which will require new web frameworks for every language that wants to take over the space from JS. This will lead to (even more) fragmentation of the web ecosystem
5) A new wasm-first SDK (unrelated to the DOM) for building cross platform applications. I can see this taking off only if it is built-into the browsers and backed by some standards committee, so not very likely I think
6) Something like the Interface Types proposal ( https://github.com/WebAssembly/interface-types/blob/main/pro... ) becomes a thing allowing wasm programs to be consisted of modules written in several different languages and being able to call said modules with low or 0 runtime performance hit (and of course, no compilation to multiple CPU archs). So much of programming ecosystems are locked to specific languages (like data science with python) when there is little technical reason for it be like that.
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Bring garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly
AFAIK GC is irrelevant for "direct DOM access", you would rather want to hop into the following rabbit hole:
- reference types: https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types/blob/master/p...
- interface types (inactive): https://github.com/WebAssembly/interface-types/blob/main/pro...
- component model: https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model
If this looks like a mess, that's because it is. Compared to that, the current solution to go through a Javascript shim doesn't look too bad IMHO.
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Rust & Wasm (Safe and fast web development)
I'm not really optimistic that particular aspect will get much improvement. Many people expected interface types to come save the day, but after a looong stagnation that proposal has been archived (for now) in favour of component types, which has much less potential for performance gains.
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Plugins in Rust: Wrapping Up
Really good questions. Unfortunately, most of the issues I found back then were fundamental ones. I've seen that Wasm has deprecated "Interface Types" and is now working on the "Component Model". But even then, as far as I understand that would only avoid the serialization and deserialization steps, and you would still need to copy complex types. It will be more performant, but I don't think it would be enough for Tremor either.
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When moving from JS to WASM is not worth it - Zaplib post mortem
wasm doesn't know anything about the outside world on purpose. This allows it to be used in other domains. For direct access to the DOM et al, interface types are being developed. It's a non-trivial problem to interoperate with a dynamically typed GC'd language from any statically typed no-GC language that can compile to wasm.
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WebAssembly 2.0 Working Draft
You may want to look into WASM interface types, which is defining what amounts to am IDL for WASM and different languages have common calling conventions: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/08/webassembly-interface-type...
I don’t know if there’s a better intro article. I believe this is the current iteration of the proposal: https://github.com/WebAssembly/interface-types/blob/main/pro...
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Replace JS with Rust on front-end, possible? Advisable?
Yes, and if I'm not mistaken, this is the RFC
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Google Chrome emergency update fixes zero-day used in attacks
I see no reason why not. See the interface types proposal for a proposed solution.
- Rust for UI development
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Front-end Rust framework performance prognosis
Wanted to get thoughts from the Rust experts on this - the author of the Yew framework seems to think that Web Assembly Interface Types (https://github.com/WebAssembly/interface-types/blob/master/proposals/interface-types/Explainer.md) will allow Yew to eventually become faster than Vue, React, Angular, etc. Is there general consensus on this in the Rust community? The prospect of mixing Rust (for the performance critical pieces) with TS on the front end doesn't seem super appealing to me.
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?
assemblyscript - A TypeScript-like language for WebAssembly.
wasm-bindgen - Facilitating high-level interactions between Wasm modules and JavaScript
gc - Branch of the spec repo scoped to discussion of GC integration in WebAssembly
wasi-sdk - WASI-enabled WebAssembly C/C++ toolchain
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-libc - WASI libc implementation for WebAssembly
Blazor.WebRTC
EasyOCR - Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.
meetings - WebAssembly meetings (VC or in-person), agendas, and notes
workers-wasi
proposals - Tracking WebAssembly proposals
asyncify - Standalone Asyncify helper for Binaryen