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That would indeed be super useful to extend self hosted automation tools like Huginn. From what I understand, wasm/wasi modules don't have full networking or filesystem access support yet. So you probably have to rely on specific runtimes to provide hooks for doing that, and regular code won't work out of the box.

1. https://github.com/suborbital/reactr 2. https://wasmedge.org/

It's still early days, but as far as I understand it, one of Suborbital's explicit goals is to commoditize wasm-backed FaaS platforms: https://suborbital.dev

This is amusing to me because CGI is basically self-hosted functions-as-a-service.

So now (or in the near future) you can run WASM functions on a WASM FaaS platform running in a container running on K8S running in a VM on a cloud platform, and achieve what you could do in 1993 with Apache CGI and Perl 4.x!

Progress!