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Solidify plan for WASI Preview 2

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c, node.js, wasm

Research direction

Start by reviewing the current jco-based guidance and the proposed wasi-clocks and wasi-filesystem interfaces. Use the next project meeting discussion to compare adding jco as a dependency with implementing Preview 2 interfaces in uvwasi. Done means the project has an agreed, documented implementation plan.

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Description

Currently, users who are interested in using WASI Preview 2 APIs are directed to the jco project.

We want to provide this functionality in Node directly, but need a plan on how we want to accomplish this. One idea is to introduce a dependency on jco directly to immediately provide experimental APIs and subsequently implement various Preview 2 interfaces in uvwasi directly where appropriate, such as for https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-clocks or https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-filesystem.

We should discuss this in our next meeting.

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