TOTomMarius·Oct 22, 2018
In WebAssembly’s post-MVP futureCommonWA
cwa-spec
Web Development2018–2018
CommonWA / cwa-spec
cwa-spec
A minimal specification of standard API for non-Web WebAssembly usermode environments
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What it is
A minimal specification of standard API for non-Web WebAssembly usermode environments
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Observed mentions: 2018-09-25 23:27:24 UTC to 2018-10-22 19:33:45 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Sep 25 | 2018-09-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-09-26 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 26 | 2018-09-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-09-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 27 | 2018-09-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-09-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 28 | 2018-09-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-09-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 29 | 2018-09-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-09-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 30 | 2018-09-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 1 | 2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2 | 2018-10-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 3 | 2018-10-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 4 | 2018-10-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 5 | 2018-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 6 | 2018-10-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 7 | 2018-10-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 8 | 2018-10-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 9 | 2018-10-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 10 | 2018-10-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 11 | 2018-10-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 12 | 2018-10-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 13 | 2018-10-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 14 | 2018-10-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 15 | 2018-10-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 16 | 2018-10-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 17 | 2018-10-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 18 | 2018-10-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 19 | 2018-10-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 20 | 2018-10-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 21 | 2018-10-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 22 | 2018-10-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-23 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesRelated to this, the wasm generated by Go is currently tied to being executed in the browser.
There doesn't yet seem to be a implementable standard to define what a non-browser execution environment looks like. The beginnings of a common spec are here though, which some places have started working with:
https://github.com/CommonWA/cwa-spec
That'll likely need to make it's way into the official specs:
* https://github.com/WebAssembly/design
* https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec
At which point implementations will have something to focus on. :)
For the Go, this is the (recent) matching issue:
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/27766
Kind of guessing it'll turn into a tracking issue to get it done.
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