Assemblyscript Removes WASI Support

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  • WASI

    WebAssembly System Interface

    https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/401#issue-8177488...

    The problem with WASI is that it is a some kind of truncated copy of CloudABI and POSIX. With all the goodies like abbreviated error codes like "fbig", "idrm", "srch" and etc. See: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/0ba0c5e2e37625ca5a6...

    The main problem of WASI in my opinion is that it's based on a standard which is 30 years old. And yes, the idea was cool, to let you run even C without having to rewrite libc. But the reality is that we can't do this now and it's still a big question whether we can in the near future. Besides, C is probably the only one that needs such a low level api, but everyone has to suffer because of it, essentially reinventing libc based on WASI with their own language runtime on top of it. This is simply a waste of binary space.

    Also it lead to fragmentation into the WebAseembly ecosystem. A compiled program in wasm32-wasi cannot run in a browser, only in wasmtime, wasmer or node.js. WASI-polyfill.js is very limited, adds a bunch of kilobytes of glue code and is still not even officially introduced.

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  • assemblyscript

    A TypeScript-like language for WebAssembly.

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