| ▲ | cobbal 7 hours ago |
| They're not doing so here, but shipping a wasm-compiled binary with npm that uses node's WASI API is a really easy way to ship a cross-platform CLI utility. Just needs ~20 lines of JS wrapping it to set up the args and file system. |
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| ▲ | mountainriver 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Doesn’t this seem excessive over just using rust’s cross platform builds? |
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| ▲ | csomar 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | There's no such thing as a truly "cross-platform" build. Depending on what you use, you might have to target specific combinations of OS and processor architecture. That's actually why WASM (though they went with WASI) is a better choice; especially for libraries, since anyone can drop it into their environment without worrying about compatibility. | | |
| ▲ | jitl 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | there’s 3 os and 2 architectures minus darwin-amd64 so you just need to do 5 builds to avoid the WASM performance tax. (freebsd runs linux binaries and the openbsd people probably want to build from source anyways) |
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| ▲ | Lord_Zero 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Can you link to a sample of how I can do this? |
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