spin
WASI
spin | WASI | |
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22 | 45 | |
4,872 | 4,614 | |
2.8% | 1.9% | |
9.8 | 6.9 | |
2 days ago | 8 days ago | |
Rust | Rust | |
Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
spin
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Git Prom! My Favorite Git Alias
For example, here's a snippet of my Git config for the spin repository:
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4 Ways to Participate in Advent of Spin - A Wasm Coding Challenge
We built (and open-sourced) Spin to make the developer experience easier, and we want to show you this through Fermyon's Advent of Spin. You will be presented with fun coding challenges that'll help you learn to build with Spin and WebAssembly.
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Creating a Server Side Rust WebAssembly App with Spin 2.0
Fermyon Spin is the open source tool for building serverless functions with WebAssembly. We’re going to use a few Spin commands to go from blinking cursor to deployed app in just a few minutes. Along the way, we’ll walk through a Spin project and see some of the features of Spin 2.0.
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Flawless – Durable execution engine for Rust
linky: https://github.com/fermyon/spin#readme (Apache 2; and while I don't see any CLA, interestingly they do require GPG signed commits: https://developer.fermyon.com/spin/contributing-spin#committ... )
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Building microservices in Rust with Spin
To install the binary file on Windows, download the Windows binary release, unzip the file, and place the spin.exe file in your system path.
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Spin 1.0 — The Developer Tool for Serverless WebAssembly
We are delighted to introduce Spin 1.0, the first stable release of the open source developer tool for building serverless applications with WebAssembly (Wasm)! Since we first introduced Spin last year, we have been hard at work together with the community on building a frictionless developer experience for building and running serverless applications with Wasm.
- Spin – Build Microservices with WebAssembly
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Waggy v0.3 Released!!
“Waggy is used for writing WAGI (WebAssembly Gateway Interface) compliant API routers/individual handlers. WAGI was developed by deislabs for accepting and routing incoming HTTP requests with WebAssembly via a configuration file (modules.toml) defining routes, modules, volumes to be mounted, etc. WAGI can run as a stand alone server, or with a framework such as the Fermyon/Spin framework Go SDK. Waggy allows for the flexibility of handling the routing via the modules.toml, or to define it code (Waggy is written in Go), as well as various pieces of convenient functionality such as the new features described above!!”
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WasmEdge
They’re VC-funded and will vendor lock-in you. See their response to my discussion:
https://github.com/fermyon/spin/discussions/861
With WasmEdge there is no vendor lock-in, it’s opaque and standards-based
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Recommendations for a resource efficient backend framework?
What language do you want? And how experimental are you wanting to go? This project is crazy cool https://github.com/fermyon/spin , but might be harder to work with if you’re not willing to use rust :p, think they might have made it easy for c# too though
WASI
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WASI 0.2.0 and Why It Matters
WASI Co-chair here. Nothing in WASI is "somehow blocked by Google", or indeed blocked by anyone at all. Graphics support in WASI hasn't been developed simply because nobody has put energy into developing graphics support in WASI.
At the end of 2023 we counted around 40 contributors who have been working on WASI specifications and implementations: https://github.com/WebAssembly/meetings/blob/main/wasi/2023/... . That is a great growth for our project from a few years ago when that issue was filed, but as you can see from what people are working on, its all much more foundational pieces than a graphics interface. Also, if you look at who is employing those contributors, its largely vendors who are interested in WASI in the context of serverless. That doesn't mean WASI is limited to only serverless, but that has been the focus from contributors so far.
By rolling out WASI on top of the WASM Component Model we have built a sound foundation for creating WASI proposals that support more problem domains, such as embedded systems (@mc_woods and his colleagues are helping with this), or graphics if someone is interested in putting in the work. Our guide to how to create proposals is found here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/Contributing.m... .
- WASI Launching Preview 2
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Missing the Point of WebAssembly
> As I understand it, it's not even really possible today to make WebAssembly do anything meaningful in the browser without trampolining back out to JavaScript anyway, which seems like a remarkable missed opportunity.
That's the underlying messy API it's built on. There are specs to make the API more standardized like https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI
But overall, yeah, it feels like a shiny new toy everyone is excited about and wants to use. Some toys can be fun to play with, but it doesn't mean we have to rewrite production systems in it. Sometimes, or most of the time, toys don't become useful tools.
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Running WASI binaries from your HTML using Web Components
Snapshot Preview 1 is the standard all tools are building to right now. The specification is available here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/legacy/preview...
It's pretty unreadable though!
Preview 2 looks like it will be a big change, and is just being finalised at the moment. I'd expect that when preview 2 is available there will be an improvement in the quality of documentation. I'm not sure how long it will take after release for tools to start switching to it. I'd expect Preview 1 will still be the main target at least for the rest of this year.
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WASI: WebAssembly System Interface
> Like WTF does this mean? The repo tells me nothing
Directly above the sentence you quoted:
"Interposition in the context of WASI interfaces is the ability for a Webassembly instance to implement a given WASI interface, and for a consumer WebAssembly instance to be able to use this implementation transparently. This can be used to adapt or attenuate the functionality of a WASI API without changing the code using it."
> and I've still yet to see a clear write-up about what WASI is.
In the same document: [0]
> WTF is wit?
The first link in that document ("Starting in Preview2, WASI APIs are defined using the Wit IDL.") is [1].
> I click on "legacy" and I see preview0 and preview1, which are basically unreadable proto-specs.
The README for the legacy directory [2] clearly explains what they are.
> Where's a single well-written WASI spec?
"Development of each API happens in its own repo, which you can access from the proposals list." [3]
> Whatever WASI is doing, I don't like it.
Clearly not - you've gone out of your way to ignore all of the documentation that answers your questions.
> And neither does AssemblyScript team apparently
The AssemblyScript team have a bone to pick with WASI based on their misunderstanding of what WASI is for (it is not intended for use on the web) and WASI's disinterest in supporting UTF-16 strings. You can see for yourself in [4].
[0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/tree/main#wasi-high-leve...
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A Gentle Introduction to WebAssembly
The Bytecode Alliance initiated a sub-project called the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI). WASI is an API that allows WebAssembly access to system features such as files, filesystems, Berkeley sockets, clocks, and random numbers. WASI acts as a system-level interface for WebAssembly, so incorporating a runtime into a host environment and building a platform is easier.
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Spin 1.0 — The Developer Tool for Serverless WebAssembly
We are excited to contribute back to Wasmtime and the component model, as well as to new projects and proposals emerging in this space (such as new Wasm proposals, like WASI Preview 2, wasi-keyvalue, wasi-sql or wasi-cloud).
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The Tug-of-War over Server-Side WebAssembly
I've been reading the following repositories.
https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/Proposals.md
What are some alternatives?
wasmCloud - wasmCloud allows for simple, secure, distributed application development using WebAssembly components and capability providers.
.NET Runtime - .NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.
lunatic - Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly
webgpu-wgsl-hello-triangle - An example of how to render a triangle with WebGPU using WebGPU Shading Language - the "Hello world!" of computer graphics.
wit-bindgen - A language binding generator for WebAssembly interface types
threads - Threads and Atomics in WebAssembly
component-model - Repository for design and specification of the Component Model
wasi-libc - WASI libc implementation for WebAssembly
distribution-spec - OCI Distribution Specification
node-sqlite3 - SQLite3 bindings for Node.js
spec - WebAssembly for Proxies (ABI specification)
gpuweb - Where the GPU for the Web work happens!