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great stuff, Jakob! 🫡
May 30, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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!
April 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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!
April 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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.
April 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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.
GitHub - extism/extism: The framework for building with WebAssembly (wasm). Easily load wasm modules, move data, call functions, and build extensible apps.
The framework for building with WebAssembly (wasm). Easily load wasm modules, move data, call functions, and build extensible apps. - extism/extism
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April 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
thank you for having me on! 🙏
April 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
blame the implementation not the protocol
April 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
thank you 🙏 glad you enjoyed
April 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
good bot
February 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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January 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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