WebAssembly as a Python Extension Platform

2 comments

• mkoubaa36 days ago
  The author never explains why they went for non-WASI runtime. Is there an advantage to doing that?
  • pjjpo36 days ago
    &gt; For the use cases in this article, the best option is wasmtime-py.<p>They seem to have gone with a WASI runtime. Though to me, the caveats after it, and throughout the article, make it seem like Wasm is more difficult to deal with than PyO3&#x27;s excellent ecosystem rather than the opposite.
  • afiori36 days ago
    An advantage of WASI is that it mostly works on non-WASI runtimes too, as it can be compiled to one or more normal modules (with the multi memory feature).<p>So a possible reason is that maybe they are not interested in offering general interfaces but just a single python specific one.<p>In this case they could have likely used wasi for that too but I can see how it could have been seen as an overhead
• pjmlp35 days ago
  IronPython, Jython and GraalPy welcome the new kid on the block.