Extism – Make All Software Programmable. Extend From Within
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Extism is a project that allows software to be made programmable through plugins, with the discussion focusing on how it handles IO operations.
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eternityforest
3 months ago
How do these plugins handle file/network/USB IO? Will this support the wasm proposals for those, or do you need it implement them yourself in the host?
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