piccolo
webcontainer-core
piccolo | webcontainer-core | |
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6 | 20 | |
1,464 | 3,622 | |
15.5% | 0.8% | |
8.9 | 2.0 | |
6 days ago | about 1 year ago | |
Rust | ||
Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal | MIT License |
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piccolo
- Piccolo – experimental Lua VM implemented in pure Rust
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Lua: The Little Language That Could
There's Lua implementation [1] in pure Rust, by the way.
[1] https://github.com/triplehex/piccolo
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Do Rust and Lua work well together?
The rust ecosystem is doubling down on wasm with little to no focus on lua (some would even prefer to build their own programming language) that doesn’t mean lua is pretty bad for the rust ecosystem it’s just that there’s no much focus as to compared to wasm Example I noticed is https://github.com/kyren/luster
- Writing a minimal Lua implementation with a virtual machine from scratch in Rust
- Lua: Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts
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Scripting Languages of the Future
Tossing my hat in for Passerine [1]. Gorgeous ML inspired syntax. Built for scripting Rust applications.
Dreaming here: Lua is a fantastic scripting language, but the Rust FFI isn’t as ergonomic as it could be. Enter Luster [2], which is basically LuaJIT rewritten in Rust.
Embedding a scripting language in a Rust application gives you tons of power (e.g. scripting Rust structs from Lua [3]), and setting this up isn’t terribly difficult.
[1] https://github.com/vrtbl/passerine
[2]: https://github.com/kyren/luster
[3]: https://git.sr.ht/~ioiojo/kiwi
webcontainer-core
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API Security Academy dedicated to GraphQL security
How does it work? There is no backend whatsoever. The API Security Academy leverages WebContainers, a new technology that allows running full-blown node instances directly in the browser. Each WebContainer contains a live GraphQL application, so you'll not only understand why a vulnerability is risky, but also how to exploit it and, most importantly, how to fix it.
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Node on Web. Use Nodejs freely in your browser with Linux infrastructure.
StackBlitz made the claim "... run Node.js, entirely inside your browser" #658, then had to revise it's claim to "We currently do not expose a way to use WebContainer outside of StackBlitz.com,".
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Lua: The Little Language That Could
> Wasm though seems like the likely general heir, and will have many different offerings for how to do that (Deno being one!).
I was recently blown away by some ideas that StackBlitz [0] apply based on WebContainers. The idea of a "server in the browser", they allow you to run Node-based environment like that via Wasm.
[0] https://stackblitz.com/
[1] https://webcontainers.io/
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How repl.it and online code editors are built?
See https://webcontainers.io.
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Blog Post: Reasonable Bootstrap
This very simple fact is well known flaw, which was already often criticized and asked for solutions by users. It doesn't only affect this kind of very exotic bootstrap applications but also significantly limits rusts usefulness in many other areas. Pure browser based scientific code documentation and example notebooks (e.g. jupyterLite) and sandboxed CI and IDE solutions (e.g. web containers) as available for many other languages are simply not available for rust because of this very fundamental issue.
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WebContainer API
Looks like they plan to open it. From the FAQ section of README (https://github.com/stackblitz/webcontainer-core#faqs):
> Is there a developer API?
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[AskJS] Is there an JavaScript engine agnostic server module that can be imported into Bun, QuickJS, Deno, and Node.js?
I'm skeptical about stackblitz claims. The last time I checked that is closed source code https://github.com/stackblitz/webcontainer-core/issues/658.
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Use SSH in browser
StackBlitz claimed https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/ to have implemented Node.js in the browser, though I have not observed any evidence of that being true and correct https://github.com/stackblitz/webcontainer-core/issues/658.
- Node.js in Chrome extension
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Docker Desktop Requires A Paid Subscription, Now What?
The other honorable mention is StackBlitz, a web-based web editor for making containers that run Javascript applications. Interestingly, StackBlitz is championing WebContainers, a technology that allows developers to start NodeJS servers within the browser. The downside is, this technology only works with Javascript-based projects (NodeJS, NextJS, etc). I include it here because WebContainers could easily be extended to support other languages via WASM, like Ruby. I’ll also add in Buildah, a tool for building OCI images. I won’t say much about this tool because it’s designed for building images; you still need another service, like Podman, to actually create the containers.
What are some alternatives?
lua-cmake - Embed lua with CMake
wasmer - 🚀 The leading Wasm Runtime supporting WASIX, WASI and Emscripten
passerine - A small extensible programming language designed for concise expression with little code.
standards-positions
lua-lockbox - A collection of cryptographic primitives written in pure Lua
wasm-clang - Running Clang/LLD in WebAssembly Demo
moonsharp - An interpreter for the Lua language, written entirely in C# for the .NET, Mono, Xamarin and Unity3D platforms, including handy remote debugger facilities.
threads - Threads and Atomics in WebAssembly
luau - A fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua
joystick - A full-stack JavaScript framework for building stable, easy-to-maintain apps and websites.
empirical-lang - A language for time-series analysis
openvscode-server - Run upstream VS Code on a remote machine with access through a modern web browser from any device, anywhere.