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qip reviews and mentions

• If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python?
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 May 2026

  Exactly, this is why I’m using AI to write C or Zig that compiles to WebAssembly.

  The purpose of a scripting language was to make authoring easier, but now it’s mostly a middle layer. There’s still getting the investment of a great standard library to keep you on track, but if you pick parts to make modular wasm and which parts to use reliably, proven code you can find a good balance.

  For qip I chose to use Golang as its standard library is batteries-included with fs & networking.

  Then everything else is AI-coded wasm plugins.

  https://github.com/royalicing/qip

• Let's Discuss Sandbox Isolation
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2026

  WebAssembly is particularly attractive for agentic coding because prompting it to write Zig or C is no harder than prompting it to write JavaScript. So you can get the authoring speed of a scripting language via LLMs but the performance close to native via wasm.

  This is the approach I’m using for my open source project qip that lets you pipeline wasm modules together to process text, images & data: https://github.com/royalicing/qip

  qip modules follow a really simple contract: there’s some input provided to the WebAssembly module, and there’s some output it produces. They can’t access fs/net/time. You can pipe in from your other CLIs though, e.g. from curl.

  I have example modules for markdown-to-html, bmp-to-ico (great for favicons), ical events, a basic svg rasterizer, and a static site builder. You compose them together and then can run them on the command line, in the browser, or in the provided dev server. Because the module contract is so simple they’ll work on native too.

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026)
  187 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Feb 2026

  I’m working on qip, a cli for running fast sandboxed WebAssembly modules.

  https://github.com/royalicing/qip

  We have LLMs that generate code but that code should be untrusted: perhaps it overflows or tries to read ssh keys. If we aren’t reviewing code closely a major security hole could be on any line.

  And since LLMs can generate in whatever language, it makes sense for them to write fast imperative code like C or Zig. We don’t have to pick our favorite scripting language for the ergonomics any more.

  So qip tries to solve both problems by running .wasm modules in a sandbox. You can pipe from other cli tools and you can chain multiple modules together. It has conventions for text, raw bytes, and image shaders, with more to come.

  I am excited by the capabilities of probabilistic coding agents, but I want to combine them deterministic code and that what these qip modules are. They are pure functions with imperative guts.

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