DecentAuth

Technically WASI 0.1, but I used it (via Extism[0]) to implement a simple library[1] that's written in Rust, but lets you easily add login to backends in Rust, Go, and Node. Would be trivial to add other lanugages supported by Extism. Overall I loved the dev experience. It's sort of like writing a C library that can be dynamically linked in other languages, but with much better security and much easier distribution because you don't need to worry about the OS or CPU architecture. Literally the same .wasm file everywhere. [0]: https://extism.org/ [1]: https://github.com/lastlogin-net/DecentAuth

> wasm outside the browser for compile-once-run-anywhere usecases with sandboxing / security guarantees I've been using it this way for DecentAuth[0]. It's awesome. I compile a single native codebase to wasm, and I can use my library from JS, Go, or Rust. New host languages only require about 1000 lines of glue. I don't have to worry at all about building for different architectures. [0]: https://github.com/lastlogin-net/DecentAuth

I'm working on something[0]. It actually supports Go, JS, and Rust (through the power of server-side WASM). Python and others are planned. It's unlikely to ever have all the features and polish of BetterAuth/OpenAuth, but I've been absolutely loving the DX for my projects that need auth. [0]: https://github.com/lastlogin-net/decent-auth

I recommend not engaging. I've tried once or twice, and when I shared a concrete example[0] of a real problem wasm solves for me that I'm not aware of another way to do, pjmlp just stopped responding. I'm not sure what their motivations are but it's too bad they choose to distract from someone's awesome project the person has spent years working on. [0]: https://github.com/lastlogin-net/decent-auth

I started using WebAssembly in earnest a few months ago to make a backend auth library that works in several different languages[0]. It's built on Extism[1], which abstracts away some of the interfacing complexity. It's been an awesome experience. Frequently feels like magic. WASM is in an interesting place. The value has clearly been proved with a pretty minimal core spec. Now there's a big push to implement a much larger API surface for WASI and the Component Model. A lot of people in the community are concerned about this direction, or at least the way it's happening[2]. For my part, I hope WASM doesn't go the way of the rest of web browsers where it gets so complicated that only big tech is capable of making implementations and experimenting. [0]: https://github.com/lastlogin-net/decent-auth [1]: https://extism.org/ [2]: https://www.a

I'm not aware of any tech other than wasm that I could be using to implement decent-auth: https://github.com/lastlogin-net/decent-auth Things like JVM and .NET are great, but not designed to be embedded other languages.