Re: [9front] 9front WASM runtime

[Roman Shaposhnik <roman@shaposhnik.org>]

On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 4:09 AM Greyson Jennings <tallesttower1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd been tinkering around with WASM runtimes and I've managed to get a
> functioning build for plan 9, called Ricket! It's basically a frontend for
> wazero tailored to use in plan 9, and It's super in alpha, but it does run
> basic command line applications. I thought you guys might find it
> interesting, and if anyone finds it useful at all, I can continue tinkering
> with it.
>
> I built it because while nearly every popular language can compile to WASM,
> only Go, C, and sometimes Zig are the only languages I can think of that
> have explicit Plan 9 support, and so I wanted to be able to have more
> options for building CLI apps, and be able to easily port existing ones.
>
> Check it out on github here! The binary in the repository is compiled to p9
> and it runs on my 9front install. Later, I'll set up github actions to
> built it automatically, and I may mirror it on sourcehut or shithub too.
> https://github.com/SlashScreen/ricket

FWIW: I love it! Would like to play with it once it is a bit more developed.

Thanks,
Roman.