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1. ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 02:23:57 JST ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

   the reason i am excited about WebAssembly is because it's the first interesting computer architecture designed in the last 30 to 40 years (unlike e.g. RISC-V)

   people who have not looked at how Wasm works usually don't get it, which makes me sad

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 02:23:56 JST minute

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     @whitequark lazy question, but i have a baremetal "OS" written in C running on zynq on our amiga graphics card. do you think it's feasible to use wasm for user defined plug-in functionality? i.e. is there a host library for this that doesn't require a lot of linuxy OS infrastructure?

   • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 02:28:37 JST ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

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     • minute

     @mntmn you almost certainly want AOT compilation for this use case. I recommend using WAMR (https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime) which is shipped by Bytecode Alliance and explicitly aims to allow bare metal porting: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime/blob/main/doc/port_wamr.md

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 04:01:02 JST minute

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     @whitequark oh wow, this looks extremely doable! thanks a ton, we'll try that out

   • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 04:01:03 JST ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

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     • minute

     @mntmn if you support AOT only this is all you need to provide: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime/blob/main/core/shared/platform/include/platform_api_vmcore.h