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Tracking: WASI P3 documentation updates

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
javascript, rust, wasm
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by reading #340 and the listed P3 work areas: Understanding, WIT reference, WIT by Example, the Rust and JavaScript guides, the jco running-components page, Canonical ABI, FAQ, and migration content. Confirm which child issue is available before choosing a unit; done means a reviewable P3 documentation update with the appropriate versioned tabs, notice, and cross-links.

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Description

The Component Model book needs to be updated for P3. This issue tracks the overall effort; individual child issues will be filed for each reviewable unit of work below.

The high-level approach is inline tabbed content for sections that differ between P2 and P3. Pages that are version-agnostic stay untouched. A small admonition at the top of each version-variable page signals that tabbed content is present.

Infrastructure landed in #340:

  • mdbook-tabs preprocessor registered with theme-aware tabs.css
  • version-notice.css for the page-level callout
  • /running-components/wasmtime.html converted as the first real demonstration

Remaining work (child issues proposed for filing after discussion):

  • Document WASI P3 async primitives (async func, stream<T>, future<T>) in the Understanding section
  • Update WIT reference and WIT by Example for WASI P3 syntax
  • Convert Rust "Building a simple component" guide for WASI P3
  • Convert JavaScript "Building a simple component" guide for WASI P3
  • Convert jco "Running components" page for WASI P3
  • Add a WASI P2 to P3 migration guide
  • Update the Canonical ABI page with async extensions
  • Update the FAQ with WASI P3 questions
  • Cross-link with WASI.dev for WASI P3 content

Related: #340

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Merged PRs (30d)
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