> Have you, ceo of wasmer, suggested worked on or seen efforts to make WebIDL an ABI for wasm to work across?
Me, as CEO of Wasmer and son of my mother, have seen efforts in many contexts to try to reuse standards rather than recreate them. Jokes aside, I think it's useful to think on how things that already exist can fit the current panorama rather than creating new standards that might take longer to adopt.
> As ceo of wasmer you must certainly be aware of at least some of the sundry low level details & duties that WIT has to perform
Of course I think that WebAssembly Interfaces can fulfill some part of the picture. In fact, at Wasmer we have been working on that front to make sure it fulfills our company needs [1].
But in the context of the browser, I think WebIDL would have fulfilled the goal of DOM access from Wasm in a way faster way than any other "standard" that is not yet standardized. I'm here advocating for use-case first (product led development), rather than tech-first. I wrote about this in more detail here, in case you may be interested! [2]
Me, as CEO of Wasmer and son of my mother, have seen efforts in many contexts to try to reuse standards rather than recreate them. Jokes aside, I think it's useful to think on how things that already exist can fit the current panorama rather than creating new standards that might take longer to adopt.
> As ceo of wasmer you must certainly be aware of at least some of the sundry low level details & duties that WIT has to perform
Of course I think that WebAssembly Interfaces can fulfill some part of the picture. In fact, at Wasmer we have been working on that front to make sure it fulfills our company needs [1]. But in the context of the browser, I think WebIDL would have fulfilled the goal of DOM access from Wasm in a way faster way than any other "standard" that is not yet standardized. I'm here advocating for use-case first (product led development), rather than tech-first. I wrote about this in more detail here, in case you may be interested! [2]
[1] https://github.com/wasmerio/wai
[2] https://wasmer.io/posts/is-not-about-wasm-is-about-what-you-...