wanix = webassembly + unix -> plan9 in the browser

[Jason E. Aten]

Despite the hilarious name, this is the most awesome display

of developer virtuosity-- 

Wanix is a plan9-sh, fully local, web development environment.

It runs a plan9 like shell in the browser (using a

service worker) that can JIT your code to wasm or x86,

using an embedded Go compiler that was compiled into

wasm itself.  The author wanted a full web dev environment

without needing node.js. 

So he built one.

Just... insanely awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJcd9IckJj8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGBeT8lwbo0

https://github.com/tractordev/wanix

https://wanix.sh/

https://wanix.run/

[Nagaev Boris]

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Hi!

Is it possible to use Go inside the environment? Like "go run", "go get".

Does it have access to the network?

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Best regards,
Boris Nagaev

[Jason E. Aten]

Hi Boris,

Well it is a browser, and plan9ish design, so "of course" the network is there, plus with

namespaces...?  would be my _guess_.

It's still in preview release 0.3, and so I asked the author your question

about using Go inside wanix on  his/the wanix discord. It turns out he's on 

vacation at the moment, and so I'm just passing along his comment:

> progrium wrote
you could use go in previous versions, but it was hacky. getting go working in wanix now is the next step for me after i get back from vacation: https://github.com/tractordev/wanix/pull/182

> progrium wrote

you can reply. short answer is soon go will work and there is a way to give it full internet/network access via a websocket gateway (but is only setup in the alpine environment in that branch)