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Without interface types to unify passing strings around or more complex handles to resources. WASM is going to be rough on the serverside.

I still have not found a consistent way to construct a sqlite connection, pass it to wasm (language agnostic) and then return and close it.

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Interface types appear to continue to be making progress: https://github.com/WebAssembly/interface-types

From your link:

> Note: This proposal is currently inactive, with work having moved on to the component-model repo.

This is never getting done, is it... this is the fourth rewrite of such a feature.

Don’t be so dismayed. I’ve been following the progress and the move was a good one. It allows them to ship the thing most people care about.

These things take time. If all else fails just write a polyfill. Component model doesn’t add anything new runtime requirements that can’t be polyfilled

You can do that with bindings currently. Interface types should only make it easier (for languages with utf-8 strings, as interface types does not support WTF-16 strings like in Java or JavaScript yet).

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