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		Existenceblinks on Dec 1, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Extism: Make all software programmable with WebAss... The pdk is missing Zig which is, for many developers, considerably the best for wasm target. It's as fast as Rust (from benchmark I saw, Rust is fastest), though Zig's binary size is as small as AssemblyScript's. Rust's binary size is considerably in a range of middle to large, mostly middle. It would be nice if there's an official wasm benchmark of source languages, showing speed and binary size comparison.

bhelx on Dec 1, 2022 [–]

Yeah, that's a good idea. C is supported on the SDK and PDK side. We are wondering if Zig can utilize the c libraries for it.

Existenceblinks on Dec 2, 2022 | [–]

I would say Zig is the nicest C friend! Zig can compile C code. Checkout: https://ziglang.org/learn/overview/#zig-is-also-a-c-compiler Also: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#toc-Freestanding

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