pronskiy, 13 days ago

@Crell It’s similar to Wasmer https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-php, but they use FFI i.e. there is no need to install extension , right?

Crell, 13 days ago

@pronskiy I dunno. My knowledge is limited to what's in the Readme. :-)

Its apparently a common Wasm runtime for several languages. I don't know if it's wasmer or wasmtime under the hood.

hunter, 13 days ago

@Crell If it’s more than just WASM, almost looks like a user friendly wrapper around FFI no?

Crell, 13 days ago

@hunter I don't know what the inner implementation looks like, but I suppose you could think of it as FFI for Wasm rather than for the C ABI.

Though I'm pretty sure it actually is embedding a Wasm runtime, which runs the code. Wasm is designed to make that easy.

fredbrooker, 13 days ago

@Crell what's that for? 🤔

Crell, 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

@fredbrooker Running Wasm plugins in a PHP app, in the same format they can run in other languages.

fredbrooker, 13 days ago

@Crell there's a Go framework for building PWA wasm app - but loading 3 MB service worker seems like a shotgun

Crell, 13 days ago

@fredbrooker This is all server side.

fredbrooker, 13 days ago

@Crell no, the WASM FOR GO runs in the browser, I guess I don't want to run wasm on server, why? 🤔

Crell, 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

@fredbrooker Because it's a common runtime that is multi language and very fast. It's what the JVM keeps pretending it is. And embedding a Wasm runtime let's your app accept plugins in any language.

fredbrooker, 13 days ago

@Crell and I fear of that

Crell, 13 days ago

@fredbrooker Why fear? I think it's huge.