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Pioneering AI-driven App Extensibility
Company blog · dylibso.com/blogprogrammingai
Pioneering AI-driven App Extensibility is the company blog at dylibso.com, writing about programming and ai. Since 2023, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Bringing WebAssembly to PostgreSQL Using Extism”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dylibso's blog for its WebAssembly work, mainly Extism, a Wasm plugin framework, and posts such as the pg-extism integration with Postgres. Commenters cite it as background on Wasm plugins.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Pioneering AI-driven App Extensibility
Most-linked posts?
- Bringing WebAssembly to PostgreSQL Using Extism4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-08-22
- Extism, the WebAssembly framework, hits v13 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-01-09
What Hacker News says?
The WebAssembly component model is aimed at having composable components that can call each other. The components can be written in any language, compiled to WebAssembly, and interoperate: https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/ Extism is a plugin framework for WebAssembly: https://extism.org/ https://github.com/extism/extism Postgres and Extism: https://dylibso.com/blog/pg-extism/ Wasm plugins for Zellij: h…
Comment linking /blog/pg-extism/
on “Lua is so underrated”Submitted Back of the Napkin WASM Performance: How Does Extism Work? as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI don't know much about it, but I think this has been tried? https://dylibso.com/blog/pg-extism/ Looking at the repo though it looks like it hasn't been updated in a while.
Comment linking /blog/pg-extism/
on “Introducing pgzx: create PostgreSQL extensions using Zig”Submitted Extism Makes WebAssembly Easy as a story · 7 points
HN discussionYep, pretty sure that is what companies like Dylibso are working towards, making software into modules underpinned by plugins that are powered by WASM: https://dylibso.com/
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on “Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK”Submitted Bringing WebAssembly to PostgreSQL Using Extism as a story · 7 points
HN discussionOne of the project creators / maintainers here. You beat us to the punch :) Excited to have reached this milestone! Here's a blog post about the 1.0 release: https://dylibso.com/blog/announcing-extism-v1/ And a link to the main repo on GitHub: https://github.com/extism/extism
Comment linking /blog/announcing-extism-v1/
on “Extism 1.0.0 Released”Submitted The Unexpected Solution to Testing WebAssembly as a story · 6 points
HN discussionOne of the project creators / maintainers here. You beat us to the punch :) Excited to have reached this milestone! Here's a blog post about the 1.0 release: https://dylibso.com/blog/announcing-extism-v1/ And a link to the main repo on GitHub: https://github.com/extism/extism
Comment linking /blog/announcing-extism-v1/
on “Extism, the universal WASM framework, reaches 1.0”Submitted Isomorphic .NET Support in Extism as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThere's Dylibso's Extism, a WebAssembly plugin system. The company building it begins with D. https://www.dylibso.com/products/extism/
Comment linking /products/extism/
on “Ask HN: Programming library that allows you to call libraries from any language?”Submitted Crafting Generative AI Apps with WebAssembly as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIf this is the first time you've heard of Extism, it's a lightweight framework for building with WebAssembly (Wasm). It supports running Wasm code from 15 programming languages (on servers, the edge, CLIs, IoT, browsers and everything in between), and makes it easy to compile Wasm from 8 programming languages. Check out the full announcement here: https://dylibso.com/blog/announcing-extism-v1/
Comment linking /blog/announcing-extism-v1/
on a deleted threadSubmitted Extism, the WebAssembly framework, hits v1 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted WASI Command and Reactor Modules in WebAssembly as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hermit: Actually Portable WASM as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Formally verified WebAssembly using Coq and Extism as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Plug-In System Hiding in Your App as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Observability Challenges in WASM as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How WebAssembly Is Eating the Database as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bringing WebAssembly to PostgreSQL Using Extism as a story · 1 points
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