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but it can be used as a backend
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2019 May 13
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maybe someone implements a compiler for php to wasm, and then you will be able to run php in our FaaS through wasm
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or npm native modules, for example
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but these are already supported
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ah, no, they aren't
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but nodejs loader (backend) can take care of it
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that's what I wanted to say
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all loaders are allowed to manage compiled versions of the language itself
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for example, netcore loader is able to load scripts, but also loads dlls
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yeah, users are somewhat locked with what native modules they can use with the current FaaS solutions
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basically it’s the same goal of why browsers need Wasm
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for example, netcore loader is able to load scripts, but also loads dlls
the same idea applies to wasm, it can load the intermediate language (the one that looks like lisp) and also the binary
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basically it’s the same goal of why browsers need Wasm
extensibility
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basically it’s the same goal of why browsers need Wasm
yeah
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I wanted to compile metacall itself to wasm too
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in order to allow executing any language in browsers (as experiment)
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but it has some limitations
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you have to emulate the std lib of each language through the browser, and that's a lot of work