(Wasm Labs team member here) SQLite is a pretty popular database and it's a critical dependency for many different applications. By compiling it to Wasm32-wasi, you can add it to any WebAssembly module.
This enables a new set of possibilities for Wasm and SQLite. For example, now you can run a full WordPress application in the browser [1][2] / server [3] using the same Wasm module. Note that for the browser these projects use Emscripten [4], but in the future the same Wasm32-wasi module will work. A teammate gave a lightning talk about SQLite and WASI at KubeCon EU [5].
In general, any environment that includes a wasm runtime can potentially run applications that uses SQLite under the hood. Before, it wasn't possible.
This enables a new set of possibilities for Wasm and SQLite. For example, now you can run a full WordPress application in the browser [1][2] / server [3] using the same Wasm module. Note that for the browser these projects use Emscripten [4], but in the future the same Wasm32-wasi module will work. A teammate gave a lightning talk about SQLite and WASI at KubeCon EU [5].
In general, any environment that includes a wasm runtime can potentially run applications that uses SQLite under the hood. Before, it wasn't possible.
- [1] https://wordpress.wasmlabs.dev/
- [2] https://developer.wordpress.org/playground/demo/
- [3] https://wasmlabs.dev/articles/running-wordpress-with-mod-was...
- [4] https://emscripten.org/
- [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7tWtgf9V2s