Hacker News Reader

Yeah, progress on WASI has been painfully slow.

I think a big reason is that it was pushed by Mozilla, but they laid off all the related employees, and now no-one is really allocating resources to push it forward.

Plus it's still blocked by related proposal like interface types.

View on HN

I know what WASI is, my point is that there is no where near parity with existing posix implementations. I have been following the bytecode alliance and webassembly communities for a while and they can't seem to get beyond the design phase. You only need to look at the networking API [0] and the thread has not been updated for two months, with prior to that folks asking is the work even happening still

[0] https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/370

What's preventing the compilation of dependencies to WASM? Couldn't I (at extreme) run an alpine linux container distro inside WASM? At that point we're full circle, but it should be possible, right?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com