The wasm-opt crate hasn't been updated for quite some time and there are no signs that anyone intends to pick it back up.
Other projects, such was wasm-pack, rely on the pre-built release binaries which I find to be a nice middle ground assuming the cli arguments remain fairly stable.
I put together a simple demonstration of what that could look like for consideration.
https://github.com/bytecodealliance/WASI-Virt/pull/165
Last updated: Aug 30 2026 at 09:07 UTC