great stuff, Jakob! 🫡

I think a really advanced user is going to start to want to optimize, but mostly around the ability to design very specific host functions and custom host function signatures. Think of this like bindings to OS or host application system calls.

For most things we see, extism is more than enough!

I do think there is a lot of value in learning the fundamentals and going as deep as your curiosity will take you. But, this is too often where people give up and decide wasm is immature or rough around the edges.

It’s just a vm and an instruction set, so you need some abstractions to get started!

Otherwise, you’re going to start way too low-level, think about allocators & memory management, how to pass data across the guest/host boundary, and probably stop before you even get something working beyond the add(1,2) example.

I am biased, but the most beginner-friendly approach is to just get started with something that works out of the box, make progress & get a quick win.

For that, we made github.com/extism/extism

Once you start to see how the pieces fit together, then you can start to break down the abstractions.

thank you for having me on! 🙏

blame the implementation not the protocol

thank you 🙏 glad you enjoyed

good bot

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