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Dev tools · March 7, 2024

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TinyWasm – A tiny WebAssembly Runtime written in Rust

Show HN: TinyWasm - A tiny WebAssembly Runtime written in Rust Hi HN! I'm excited to share TinyWasm (https://github.com/explodingcamera/tinywasm), a WebAssembly Interpreter I developed for my final university project. The main goal of this project was to deepen my understanding of WebAssembly and interpreter design. TinyWasm successfully passes all the official WebAssembly 1.0 tests and also includes features from future proposals such as like bulk memory operations. Initially more of a research project, TinyWasm focuses on simplicity and portability. It has minimal…

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TinyWasm is a WebAssembly runtime interpreter written in Rust that executes WebAssembly code. It passes all official WebAssembly 1.0 tests and includes features from future proposals like bulk memory operations. Designed for simplicity and portability, it has minimal dependencies, a small codebase, and works in no_std environments. The tool is intended for developers who want to embed WebAssembly execution into other projects or study interpreter design.

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Show HN: TinyWasm - A tiny WebAssembly Runtime written in Rust Hi HN! I'm excited to share TinyWasm (https://github.com/explodingcamera/tinywasm), a WebAssembly Interpreter I developed for my final university project. The main goal of this project was to deepen my understanding of WebAssembly and interpreter design. TinyWasm successfully passes all the official WebAssembly 1.0 tests and also includes features from future proposals such as like bulk memory operations. Initially more of a research project, TinyWasm focuses on simplicity and portability. It has minimal third-party dependencies, a small codebase, and is compatible with no_std environments. It's now available as a standalone library (https://crates.io/crates/tinywasm), and I hope it can be useful for embedding into other projects and hacking on, especially because it's designed to be easy to understand and modify, while still being decently performant. I'm looking forward to feedback, hope you find it useful!

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