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WebAssembly interpreter in C

7 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2018-01-05 · latest 2023-06-20

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  1. …VM libraries with nice licensing and easy to integrate interface and virtually no dependencies like https://github.com/kanaka/wac for example. But again, implementing wasm's poorly engineered container format and one of its incompatible…
    comment by bzt · 2023-06-20 · in Show HN: Meg-4, the Open Source PICO-8 alternative
  2. …like wac[1] with cosmopolitan, which would then run on all OSes and bare metal, yes. [1]: https://github.com/kanaka/wac
    comment by iFreilicht · 2021-02-28 · in Actually Portable Executables
  3. …like docker, the end result is that it can be very difficult to modify it when you need to. [1] https://github.com/kanaka/wac
    comment by swiley · 2019-04-10 · in Wac: Minimal WebAssembly interpreter written in C
  4. which was forked from https://github.com/kanaka/wac the kanaka project appears to be a generic platform project where as the grassel fork is targeting the esp32.
    comment by donpdonp · 2019-04-10 · in Wac: Minimal WebAssembly interpreter written in C
  5. …the canonical OCaml one [3]. But it would not be hard to write one, WASM is fairly trivial. 0 - https://github.com/kanaka/wac 1 - https://github.com/paritytech/wasmi 2 - https://github.com/sunfishcode/wasmtime 3 -…
    comment by kodablah · 2018-07-20 · in The future of WebAssembly – A look at upcoming features and proposals
  6. …ps://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/rust_embedding_wasm/ Then there's "WebAssembly interpreter in C": https://github.com/kanaka/wac Looks like it might be good enough for implementing WASM "scripting" support in smallish environments.
    comment by vardump · 2018-04-04 · in JavaScript to Rust and Back Again: A Wasm-Bindgen Tale
  7. …write. https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen has the helping code for things like parsing. Both https://github.com/kanaka/wac and https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasm-jit-prototype interpret WASM. The latter even JITs into LLVM IR.
    comment by kodablah · 2018-01-05 · in TeaVM – Ahead-of-time transpiler of Java bytecode to JavaScript or WebAssembly