This latest refactor adds "extractor macros" in place of the very-confusing-even-to-the-DSL-author reverse-rules-as-extractors concept. It was beautifully symmetric but also just too mind-bending to be practical. It also adds argument polarity to external extractors. This is inspired by Prolog's similar notion (see e.g. the "+x" vs. "-x" argument notation in library documentation) where the unification-based semantics allow for bidirectional flow through arguments. We don't want polymorphism or dynamism w.r.t. directions/polarities here; the polarities are static; but it is useful to be able to feed values *into* an extractor (aside from the one value being extracted). Semantically this still correlates to a term-rewriting/value-equivalence world since we can still translate all of this to a list of equality constraints. To make that work, this change also adds expressions into patterns, specifically only for extractor "input" args. This required quite a bit of internal refactoring but is only a small addition to the language semantics. I plan to build out the little instruction-selector sketch further but the one that is here (in `test3.isle`) is starting to get interesting already with the current DSL semantics.
wasmtime
A standalone runtime for WebAssembly
A Bytecode Alliance project
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Installation
The Wasmtime CLI can be installed on Linux and macOS with a small install script:
$ curl https://wasmtime.dev/install.sh -sSf | bash
Windows or otherwise interested users can download installers and binaries directly from the GitHub Releases page.
Example
If you've got the Rust compiler installed then you can take some Rust source code:
fn main() {
println!("Hello, world!");
}
and compile/run it with:
$ rustup target add wasm32-wasi
$ rustc hello.rs --target wasm32-wasi
$ wasmtime hello.wasm
Hello, world!
Features
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Lightweight. Wasmtime is a standalone runtime for WebAssembly that scales with your needs. It fits on tiny chips as well as makes use of huge servers. Wasmtime can be embedded into almost any application too.
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Fast. Wasmtime is built on the optimizing Cranelift code generator to quickly generate high-quality machine code at runtime.
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Configurable. Whether you need to precompile your wasm ahead of time, or interpret it at runtime, Wasmtime has you covered for all your wasm-executing needs.
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WASI. Wasmtime supports a rich set of APIs for interacting with the host environment through the WASI standard.
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Standards Compliant. Wasmtime passes the official WebAssembly test suite, implements the official C API of wasm, and implements future proposals to WebAssembly as well. Wasmtime developers are intimately engaged with the WebAssembly standards process all along the way too.
Language Support
You can use Wasmtime from a variety of different languages through embeddings of the implementation:
- Rust - the
wasmtimecrate - C - the
wasm.h,wasi.h, andwasmtime.hheaders or usewasmtimeConan package - [C++] - the
wasmtime-cpprepository or usewasmtime-cppConan package - Python - the
wasmtimePyPI package - .NET - the
WasmtimeNuGet package - Go - the
wasmtime-gorepository
Documentation
📚 Read the Wasmtime guide here! 📚
The wasmtime guide is the best starting point to learn about what Wasmtime can do for you or help answer your questions about Wasmtime. If you're curious in contributing to Wasmtime, it can also help you do that!
It's Wasmtime.