When compiled to WebAssembly, the Dart SDK needs access to external
host functions to implement regular expressions, stack traces, timers
and more. Currently, `dart2wasm` relies on `js_interop` definition to
implement these functions in JavaScript.
As discussed in https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/53884, an
alternative is to use `wasm:import` annotations to let an arbitrary
embedder that doesn't necessarily run in a JavaScript context inject
implementations for these host functions.
This would allow running `dart2wasm` apps by e.g.
- using a runtime like wasmtime and defining host functions in Rust.
- defining a wrapper module implementing required functions by
delegating to WASI definitions, and then using say `wasm-merge` to
run the app in any WASI-compatible runtime.
This prepares the `--standalone` flag on `dart2wasm` to do just that.
When enabled, the compiler uses a different SDK platform to use imports
instead of JS interop. For now, these platforms are almost identical:
I've ported the timer logic to use wasm imports as a demo, but the rest
is still based on existing patch files. We can revisit in subsequent
CLs to incrementally reduce `js_interop` dependencies before removing
that library from the `dart2wasm_standalone` target entirely.
Change-Id: I3f406afbf2dab65506094de5c3f4067f4db66f3e
Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/486380
Reviewed-by: Slava Egorov <vegorov@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kustermann <kustermann@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Martin Kustermann <kustermann@google.com>
Simon Binder
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