Re:Show HN: WAPM – Package Manager for WebAssembly
by bayesian_horse on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @06:26PM
(#19733589)
The documentation such as it is, doesn't even tell me what this is supposed to do (or at least not after a superficial look). Is it for using web assembly binaries on a command line? Or in the browser? Integration with webpack or the like?
There is a link on how to install from source, pointing to github, but the link is dead and the organization has no repositories...
At the moment, there is not enough momentum behind individual web assembly packages, as in "many people wanting to include the same wasm binaries". If at some point there are runtimes for like C#, Java, Python etc which people agree on, they might try and use a CDN approach, such that users visiting multiple websites don't need to download everything at every site.
Re:Show HN: WAPM – Package Manager for WebAssembly
by sitapati on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @08:50AM
(#19737790)
It's a Java/.NET/JS-style VM target. So you can distribute your app with a single binary download, instead of different ones for different Operating Systems.
There is a link on how to install from source, pointing to github, but the link is dead and the organization has no repositories...
At the moment, there is not enough momentum behind individual web assembly packages, as in "many people wanting to include the same wasm binaries". If at some point there are runtimes for like C#, Java, Python etc which people agree on, they might try and use a CDN approach, such that users visiting multiple websites don't need to download everything at every site.