Extism 1.0, your framework to build with WebAssembly by Steve Manuel @ Wasm I/O 2024
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- čas přidán 1. 04. 2024
- Wasm I/O 2024 / 14-15 March 2024
Extism launched in December 2022, and this talk shares how things have taken shape. 1.0 launches January 2024. The talk will culminate in a demo showcasing just how portable WebAssembly can be (the same code deployed to Cloudflare, Vercel, in the browser, Shuttle.rs, Encore, Val.town, and many more)
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Extism was created to smooth out the rough edges of working with Wasm. It’s a flexible framework that eliminates the lower-level concerns of loading and executing Wasm code, as well as interoperability with numerous languages. In the talk, I’ll also cover how various other ecosystem projects compare, and draw some analogies to other ecosystem frameworks like Python/Flask, Docker/Kubernetes, etc. The audience should leave with a solid understanding of when to reach for Extism vs. the Component Model, based on what they already know about other abstraction layers like Flask & GraphQL.
Extism helps make great use of one of WebAssembly’s most useful features, portability. As such, I’ll take the audience on a journey to see just how far we can take Wasm into all sorts of places… WebAssembly inside Excel? You bet! - Věda a technologie
Just really like the nostalgy story! Thanks for this talk!
thank you! yes, the good old days of jQuery - sometimes I miss the simplicity
For anyone who hasn't ventured into the depths of building secure sandboxed plugin systems for web applications extism is a gift! I haven't used it myself but might in the future once I need to support more languages in the plugins.
wow, very kind kind of you to say! looking forward to see what you build 🤘
i was trying to build secure sandboxed plugin systems for web. i think there are a couple of problems being glanced over. one is that where do you host the wasm binary (its like 5mb for a simple print, actually just heard the audience question in the end) and secondly it's fine to run some simple function but as soon as you need a bit more visual UI then it's more difficult
I have my jaw drop when you demo-ed the excel one. Damn!
glad you liked it :)
@@nilslice the problem is, i don't actually know how to do it. Lol
@@kevinl.9657 the excel demo is a bit more complicated than any other extism demo. I’ll share the code though! in the meantime, I’d try out extism using JavaScript SDK, which will make the Excel part more familiar since it uses JS too
Looks like a cool project! tempted to try it out, maybe with a neovim plugin
now if only we can do this in dart/flutter
more relevant, how might one create a plugin system for a php app?
that is, i'd like to have the same level of extensibility as just... adding php files
Extism supports embedding plugins in PHP apps today! If you'd like to write the plugins in PHP, we would need to support a PHP "PDK", which is interesting, and would be open to it!
I'm waiting flutter session.