hi, several cloud providers offer/use WASM in a la...

# multiplatform

[Bernhard]

hi, several cloud providers offer/use WASM in a lambda context which is where it seems like things are moving towards; is there a recommended way to get started with serverside wasm? like what do I need here? node? I'm unsure if there are any bindings

[Artem Kobzar]

@bashor ^^

[Bernhard]

for context: I'm diving into shopify documentation and they allow you to apply custom code run on their servers to add promotions and similar things; their examples are in JS and Rust, but I think it'd be a massive boon if we could leverage Java/Kotlin knowledge which already exists in our company

[Bernhard]

I couldn't really find any usable examples in that space yet, most of it focuses on jetpack compose and browsers

[Bernhard]

plus doing manual memory management like in some examples would probably just be inferior to the Rust choice

[bashor]

Hi!
Important thing to know is that to run binaries produced by Kotlin/Wasm toolchain a runtime must support garbage collection and legacy exception handling proposals.

There couple of runtimes already have both
• Node.js
• Deno
• WasmEdge
• Coudflare Workers (workerd)
• WAMR
• wasmer via v8

[bashor]

Check out following github repos for getting started:
• https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-wasm-wasi-template/
• https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-wasm-nodejs-template/
• https://github.com/bashor/kotlin-worker-hello-world

[Bernhard]

thank you!