Ashanti Mutinta (Oct 22 2024 at 14:37): Ashanti Mutinta (Oct 22 2024 at 14:37):I was thinking about wasi-libc and was wondering if you would recommend it for a language backend interested in wasm compilation? Are there any limitations to using it? Say for example I wanted to provide socket support for a scripting language.
Victor Adossi (Oct 24 2024 at 14:49):There are much better people who can/will answer, but I do want to point you to componetize-py which is written using wasi-libc (a fork, for now) and might be worth taking a look at if you haven't yet!
Joel Dice (Oct 24 2024 at 15:29):.NET, Rust, and LLVM/Clang also use wasi-libc when targeting WASI. Note that you don't need to use wasi-libc to target WASI -- it's just convenient if you already target a POSIX-like environment. Alternatively, you could target WASI directly without any kind of POSIX emulation; I believe that's what Go does.
Joel Dice (Oct 24 2024 at 15:31):BTW, componentize-py only uses a fork of wasi-libc because Rust didn't have native wasm32-wasip2 support until recently. I've just opened an issue to switch to upstream.
Ashanti Mutinta (Oct 31 2024 at 11:52):Joel Dice said:
.NET, Rust, and LLVM/Clang also use wasi-libc when targeting WASI. Note that you don't need to use wasi-libc to target WASI -- it's just convenient if you already target a POSIX-like environment. Alternatively, you could target WASI directly without any kind of POSIX emulation; I believe that's what Go does.
Awesome thank you!
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