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Running Zig with WASI on Cloudflare Workers

What's this blog post about?

The author explores the possibility of running Zig code on Cloudflare Workers by creating a simple program that reads from stdin and prints to stdout with line numbers. They successfully compile the Zig code into WebAssembly with WASI support, allowing it to run seamlessly on any WASI-compatible WebAssembly runtime such as wasmtime. The author then publishes the worker using wrangler2 and confirms its successful deployment by invoking the URL printed from the output. They express their confidence in the potential of Zig code running on Cloudflare Workers, especially with the maturation of technology like WASI.

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
Aug. 1, 2022

Author(s)
Daniel Harper

Word count
748

Hacker News points
167

Language
English


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