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Extism is a plug-in system. Plug-in systems make your software programmable by end users (such as your customers or your open source community). Currently plug-

• robofanatic 4y ago
  > Plug-in systems make your software programmable by end users (such as your customers or your open source community) I am confused. Who is the "end user" or the "customer? It seems like "developer" who is writing software for a customer is your end user or may be not. Who will actually use this is not clear from the website. From couple of examples I think this comes close to something like a SQL CLR integration, where for example you can call a C# routine from SQL query. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/data/adonet/sql/introduction-to-sql-server-clr-integration https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/data/adon...
  • bhelx 4y ago
    Your end user would be a user of your application, e.g. a customer. But it could also be a marketplace like situation where people are developing plugins for your customers. Examples of plugin systems are things like VS-Code Extensions, Figma plugins, firefox extensions, etc. Here is a good example of a wasm plugin system for an open source project: https://istio.io/latest/docs/reference/config/proxy_extensions/wasm-plugin/ https://istio.io/latest/docs/reference/config/proxy_extensio...