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WASI is a system interface for WebAssembly modules, it is not an implementation. Therefore, these are quite different. However, they could have decided to use

WASI is a system interface for WebAssembly modules, it is not an implementation. Therefore, these are quite different. However, they could have decided to use WASI as the interface for their wasm runtime, but it looks like they didn't

oblio 7y ago
It's likely this project was started before WASI was announced.
gouh 7y ago
a bit off topic, but I was wondering, can WASI API be used directly from c/c++ without compiling to wasm ? Basically to have native perf but still benefit from the crossplatform APIs that WASI will expose
- Rusky 7y ago
  That depends entirely on the implementation (and leaves open the question of ABI and binary file format).
  - gouh 7y ago
    Doesn't WASI defines a sort of ABI (what are the data types, the functions, arguments, return types etc...) ?
    - sanxiyn 7y ago
      Yes, but WASI doesn't define calling convention and binary format, because they are defined by WASM. Your proposed WASI-native would need to define them.
      - gouh 7y ago
        ah okay I see, thanks for your answer