Top 4 C Wasi Projects

w2c2

9 668 8.6 C

Translates WebAssembly modules to portable C

Project mention: Build your own WebAssembly Compiler | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-03

For AOT, the simplest approach, that actually produces the fastest native code, is to naively translate WASM opcodes to C.
This is for example what W2C2 does: https://github.com/turbolent/w2c2

xcc

1 176 9.7 C

Toy C compiler for x86-64/aarch64/riscv64/wasm
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wasm-libxml2

1 10 0.0 C

A quick experiment to build and run libxml2 as a WebAssembly module.
jq-wasi

1 2 9.3 C

Command-line JSON processor compiled using wasi-sdk

Project mention: WASM Instructions | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-18

Oh it’s certainly looking like that IMO.
You can run wasm in k8s: https://krustlet.dev/
Docker itself can run wasm: https://wasmlabs.dev/articles/docker-without-containers/
There are a few serverless runtimes based on wasm: https://wasmcloud.com/
A lot of those are powered by wasmtime or WasmEdge.
If you’re wanting to be able to just pull down a random app and run it as wasm, that’s inherently harder with wasm, because you have to recompile, and amazing compiling stuff is always harder than it should be. For example I compiled jq to wasm to other day, so you dont have to worry (as much) about the CVEs that was issued recently. https://github.com/rockwotj/jq-wasi

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