On Fri, Sep 20, 2024, at 12:28 PM, Dennis Snell wrote:
> I’m not sure why you’re singling out Automattic, since nobody from
> Automattic started this thread or requested other people provide
> unfunded volunteer work, or why you’re expecting a single corporate
> entity to fully fund long-term planned features in the language. Is
> that how PHP normally grows? I’m not familiar with the process.
>
> My goal in sharing here is to help better represent my own perspective
> of WordPress’ needs based on what I’ve seen. It’s long been on my list
> to propose a WASM RFC, but because I personally haven’t had the
> priority available to get an implementation working I haven’t done so.
> It’s my impression from the documentation that the purpose of these
> email threads w.r.t. RFCs is to gather interest and input before any
> RFC would be put together, to hold these discussions before anyone
> commits any major time to it.
FWIW, I feel that an embedded Wasm bridge, with a good API, would be an excellent addition and way
more useful than the crappy experience of FFI.
Logistical question, for those with more stdlib expertise: Since we have other extensions in php-src
that only work if you install some other library as well (eg, curl), which distros pretty much take
care of for us, would a small in-php-src extension that is just a thin wrapper for Wasmtime or
similar be viable? Not embedding Wasmtime into the php-src code, just the extension, and it's
up to the user/distro to install both so that they work.
(Note: I'm not asking if you think it's a good idea, just if it's physically
possible/worth discussing.)
--Larry Garfield