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		kllrnohj on Dec 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The best WebAssembly runtime may be no runtime > then I can give you a single file which can be executed on Linux, BSD, Mac, or Windows. Using what libraries & syscalls? A portable IR and a portable executable are very different things, yet the WASM crowd loves to conflate them. WASM is only a portable IR, it doesn't get you portable programs at least not if you want your program to do anything beyond a trivial hello world.

VikingCoder on Dec 12, 2023 [–]

For WASM, that's what WASI is all about, yes?

And for Cosmopolitan Libc, there's documented Functions:

https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/functions.html

And if you want to see things beyond a trivial hello world, you can check out some examples:

https://github.com/shmup/awesome-cosmopolitan

https://github.com/burggraf/awesome-cosmo

Or you can see a pretty big list of pre-compiled Actually Portable Executables here:

https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/bin/

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