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Annoying to use acronym "WASI" and assume that everyone knows what it means. Apparently it’s Web Assembly System Interface. But what does that mean? To quote fr
by alanh 4y ago
Annoying to use acronym "WASI" and assume that everyone knows what it means. Apparently it’s Web Assembly System Interface. But what does that mean? To quote from https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI:
> The WebAssembly System Interface is not a monolithic standard system interface, but is instead a modular collection of standardized APIs. None of the APIs are required to be implemented to have a compliant runtime. Instead, host environments can choose which APIs make sense for their use cases.
Uhh… OK, I guess. So it’s a collection of APIs to allow Web Assembly programs to make system calls? Why not just say that?
Edit: The official release notes do not make this mistake. https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2022/12/25/ruby-3-2-0-released/ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2022/12/25/ruby-3-2-0-rele...
- capableweb 4y agoOther accronyms that people outside of the intended audience might not know about: - JIT - "just-in-time" compilation - YJIT - "Yet Another Ruby JIT" - Regex - "regular expression" / sometimes "rational expression"