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WASM sounds great in theory but it's so much pain in practice. Once as a presentation demo I made it run on ESP32 but in the process of digging deep into runtim

by po1nt 5mo ago

WASM sounds great in theory but it's so much pain in practice. Once as a presentation demo I made it run on ESP32 but in the process of digging deep into runtimes and WASM spec, I wanted to disclose pros vs cons and it killed my presentation. I realize wasm wasn't designed for embedded but it made me open my eyes to it's intricacies like minimum memory allocation, why not native 1 byte variables?

pjmlp 5mo ago
If you want bytecode for embedded see stuff like BASIC Stamp or Parallax Propeller.
- po1nt 5mo ago
  Well my original idea was to show that in a future anyone could code for MCUs in any language. I actually changed my mind in the process. Now we got LLMs and people just prompt anyway.