How feasible is to create a WASM plugin system in Rust?

1. extism

   1 56 4,800 8.4 Rust

   The framework for building with WebAssembly (wasm). Easily load wasm modules, move data, call functions, and build extensible apps.

   

   take a look at the docs & github if you're interested: https://extism.org & https://github.com/extism/extism

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3. wasmi

   2 6 1,696 9.5 Rust

   WebAssembly (Wasm) interpreter.

   

   There are lots of solutions to this, I was randomly looking into this yesterday purely out of curiosity and it looks to me like wasmi is the current go-to option.

4. fp-bindgen

   3 24 491 4.6 Rust

   Bindings generator for full-stack WASM plugins

   

   fp-bindgen is a library that can help you if you to write custom plugin APIs for such a use case: https://github.com/fiberplane/fp-bindgen

5. Ambient

   4 23 3,833 3.4 Rust

   The multiplayer game engine

   

   Yes. I implemented the WASM logic for Ambient. It's all doable, but as the other commenters have mentioned, bindings can be a bit of a pain.

6. trinity

   5 1 71 5.8 Rust

   Matrix bots in Rust and WebAssembly (by bnjbvr)

   

   Here's another example: https://github.com/bnjbvr/trinity

7. wasmloading

   6 2 3 0.0 Rust

   I wrote a toy example of this a few years ago. It's probably a little outdated, but it's also probably a little easier to get your head around than reading a full-fledged plugin system in something like lapce: https://github.com/pmsanford/wasmloading

8. wasmtime_serde

   7 2 10 3.4 Rust

   Simple library for serializing complex types to the wasmtime runtime using serde

   

   yes, it's perfectly possible, the biggest hurdle to this is that you need some way to map the data into and out of wasm memory, you can do this manually or use one of the crates that currently solve this problem (I'm author of a github)

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