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I feel like we’re having our xkcd competing standards moment for WebAssembly outside the browser. There is WASI (preview1 and preview2 with components), WASIX,
by rockwotj 3y ago
I feel like we’re having our xkcd competing standards moment for WebAssembly outside the browser.
There is WASI (preview1 and preview2 with components), WASIX, and now WALI proposed here.
- rockwotj 3y agoI sort of wish that these could be new additions to proposals/extensions to WASI instead of separate standards
- striking 3y agoThere's a paragraph with the heading "The Need for a Complete Wasm OS Interface" in the introduction that breaks down the differences.
- titzer 3y agoThis is not a competing standard, it's a complementary, lower-level interface that can be used to implement (and sandbox) the WASI implementation. It's defense-in-depth and layering: WASI moves up a layer, and not every engine needs to implement it independently, as it can be a Wasm module that runs on any engine.