wagi VS tool-conventions

WAGI and WCGI are the WASM based spiritual successors.

https://github.com/deislabs/wagi

https://wasmer.io/posts/announcing-wcgi

Compile a CGI program in any language to WASI, then use https://github.com/deislabs/wagi to run it.

Yeah of course! They've got STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR and I've built a Virtual Filesystem. But if you're using WASI binaries locally they don't have that restriction.

You might be interested in WAGI: https://github.com/deislabs/wagi

And to catch up on WASI: https://xeiaso.net/talks/unix-philosophy-logical-extreme-was...

As I'm sure you've heard, WASM has been growing in popularity and use over the past few years. And with the creation of WASI (Web Assembly System Interface) and WAGI (Web Assembly Gateway Interface), WASM is starting to venture outside of running just in the browser. And in the case of WAGI, if you've been programming since the earlier days of the internet, it might feel very similar to CGI programming (and that's because it's based on CGI1.1!) WAGI provides a way for developers to define handlers for HTTP requests and route them to specific functions inside of, or entire, WASM modules. It does so by piping the headers of the incoming request to os.Args[1:], piping the body of the incoming request to os.Stdin, and writing the response to os.Stdout. (To learn more about configuring, routing, compiling, and deploying WAGI routes, as well as the limitations of WAGI routes, please consult the WAGI docs and the TinyGo WASM docs)

What do you think of WAGI [1], which is basically CGI for WASM modules.

[1]: https://github.com/deislabs/wagi/blob/main/docs/writing_modu...

as serverless functions (https://github.com/deislabs/wagi)

I'm experimenting with WASM & Rust but with a different framework named wagi, there's a great video by Rainer Stropek & Stefan Baumgartner that gives a little introduction to it [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NDwHBjLlhQ

[1]: https://github.com/deislabs/wagi

Krustlet and WAGI are two such projects.

It does support it, the runtime we are currently using enables that -- see https://github.com/deislabs/wagi/blob/main/docs/writing_modu...

Good point on the docs, I will open an issue and add some information about it, thanks!

> Better interoperability

AFAIK, the examples you give all target a basic C ABI [0] or can be made to target the same ABI. In Rust, it means targeting wasm32-unknown-emscripten

The Rust team is also working on a "WASM ABI"[1] which would be useful in taking advantage of stuff like multi-value returns, and other compilers could just choose to target that. More likely, the C ABI on WASM will be updated to account for missing features, and that'll be the standard for interoperability in the WASM ecosystem.

[0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/tool-conventions/blob/main/Ba...

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/lang-team/blob/master/design-me...

C ABI: Compatible with the C language Application Binary Interface (ABI). So code in the language is usable from other languages. Inspired by Zig. Since compiling to WASM is desirable, WASM's C ABI could probably be used, instead of a separate implementation towards the C ABI.

There is maybe a solution. From what I found the linker will glue constructor functions and they have an associated priority. (look https://github.com/WebAssembly/tool-conventions/blob/master/Linking.md here for the "linking meta data section"). I explored the ldd/wasm source code directory and it looks like there are also destructor functions. I have not found out in which sections such functions should be placed (after 1h of exploration). Would you like to pursue? I am ok to receive pushes or even share owner ship of the repository.