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		flohofwoe 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WASM GC isn't ready for realtime graphics Calling an "idiomatic" C++ API from WASM would also require a (COM like) shim though since C++ has no standardized ABI. E.g. as soon as your API uses things like std::string it already gets hairy.

weinzierl 8 months ago [–]

There already is browser.wit, that is what a direct interface could look like.

pjmlp 8 months ago | | [–]

But this is what flohofwoe was talking about, WIT is basically COM/CORBA/RMI/Remoting for WebAssembly.

flohofwoe 8 months ago | | [–]

Yes, but in the end this just automates the bindings generation, runtime overhead for marshalling will be the same.

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