Ben Little (May 04 2024 at 17:20): Ben Little (May 04 2024 at 17:20):Hello, I'm curious if there have been any attempts to build an app framework where apps compile to WASM. Android and IOS tend to be a bit boxed-in due to their choice of blessing a particular language for app development.
To properly support wasm apps, these frameworks could map their APIs (probably a subset of it) onto a WIT world and ship a custom wasm host with the framework itself. Or a particularly ambitious app developer could do the same, providing an app that ships the runtime.
However this begs the question: What is that WIT interface? What functionality does an app expect from the host and vice versa? How should apps declare required permissions to access host functions?
Once those questions are answered, I think it's safe to forget Android/IOS entirely. With a proper reactive app framework interface defined, anyone could build a framework for their favorite OS or embedded device.
I am definitely not an expert on existing app frameworks, so that's why I'm wondering if someone has attempted to answer questions like this before.
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