Stream: beginners

Topic: Embedded language use case?


view this post on Zulip Johannes Vollmer (Oct 16 2022 at 22:25):

More and more, wasm will be used as a sandbox for dynamically loaded code in host apps. For example, to have an automation plugin for an image editing app. Traditionally, this has been done by scripting languages, but wasm will offer many advantages.

As I feel in love with Roc at first sight, I wondered if it will be a possible to embed Roc into another language? Is this planned or is this a non-goal?

view this post on Zulip Richard Feldman (Oct 16 2022 at 22:31):

do you mean something like this? https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/tree/main/examples/ruby-interop

view this post on Zulip Johannes Vollmer (Oct 18 2022 at 06:15):

Yes exactly! Very happy to see that. A custom platform might be what I was looking for


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