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wazero imports

Packages in this directory implement the host imports needed for specific languages or shared compiler toolchains.

  • AssemblyScript e.g. asc X.ts --debug -b none -o X.wasm
  • Emscripten e.g. em++ ... -s STANDALONE_WASM -o X.wasm X.cc
  • WASI e.g. tinygo build -o X.wasm -target=wasi X.go

Note: You may not see a language listed here because it either works without host imports, or it uses WASI. Refer to https://wazero.io/languages/ for more.

Please open an issue if you would like to see support for another compiled language or toolchain.

Overview

WebAssembly has a virtual machine architecture where the host is the process embedding wazero and the guest is a program compiled into the WebAssembly Binary Format, also known as Wasm (%.wasm).

The only features that work by default are computational in nature, and the only way to communicate is via functions, memory or global variables.

When a compiler targets Wasm, it often needs to import functions from the host to satisfy system calls needed for functionality like printing to the console, getting the time, or generating random values. The technical term for this bridge is Application Binary Interface (ABI), but we'll call them simply host imports.

Packages in this directory are sometimes well re-used, such as the case in WASI. For example, Rust, TinyGo, and Zig can all target WebAssembly in a way that imports the same "wasi_snapshot_preview1" module in the compiled %.wasm file. To support any of these, wazero users can invoke wasi_snapshot_preview1.Instantiate on their wazero.Runtime.