15h ago · 6 min read · If you've ever tried compiling a Go program to WebAssembly and watched the output balloon to 10+ MB for a glorified "hello world," you know the pain. I hit this wall last year when I was building a browser-based tool that needed some Go logic running...
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Jun 14, 2024 · 9 min read · Today, if you want to run WASM programs from Java, you can find several solutions: Wasmer Java is a WebAssembly runtime for Java from Wasmer. It's probably one of the oldest in the history of the Java WASM runtimes. But there has been no activity on...
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Jul 17, 2023 · 4 min read · As I explained in the previous article, Wasm programs are "limited" by default (it's also a security principle). The WASI specification is a set of APIs that will allow the development of WebAssembly (Wasm) programs to access system resources (if per...
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Jul 16, 2023 · 3 min read · Extism is a set of SDK projects that allow you to develop applications that run WebAssembly plugins and develop WebAssembly plugins themselves. Extism provides multiple SDKs for building host applications (those that load and execute WebAssembly plug...
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May 14, 2023 · 9 min read · Capsule project's origins About a year ago, to consolidate my learning of Go and my knowledge of WebAssembly, I started a project named 'Capsule' (I started to release a "usable" version in August last year). Capsule was a WebAssembly function launch...
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Apr 16, 2023 · 9 min read · This blog post is an introduction to WASI, the WebAssembly System Interface. But first, let's talk a little bit about WASM. This blog post is the first of a long series dedicated to WASI. Quick reminder: WASM? WebAssembly (nickname: WASM) is a low-...
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Jul 31, 2022 · 5 min read · In this tutorial, we look at how goroutines can communicate with one another using what are called "channels". https://youtu.be/NmEMwFQ0MI0 Objective One of our earlier tutorials covered GoRoutines, which are one of the most common concurrency primit...
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Jul 13, 2022 · 4 min read · In this tutorial, we explore how to connect external devices such as LEDs and push buttons to the Pico, and how to use an "interrupt" to handle an input. https://youtu.be/I5uVHBgOZQo Objective We need to create a program which continuously blinks an...
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Jul 10, 2022 · 2 min read · Let us modify the simple blink program from our earlier tutorial to run multiple tasks simultaneously. This is what we call concurrency. Go has a number of primitives to help make programmers' lives easier when they create concurrent programs. In ...
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Jul 4, 2022 · 3 min read · In this tutorial, we look at what it takes to create the simplest program of all - one that blinks the onboard LED on the Raspberry Pi Pico. https://youtu.be/B-6GsoEg0Lw The Program The program itself is simple - about 15 lines of code. // blink.go ...
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