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[dbaeumer]

The major reasons why I implemented all of this are:

• we have special requirements where we can implement the host API in VS Code. It has to happen in the extension host worker and therefore we need to bridge from WASM worker into another worker. The generated meta model allows us to do so without writing any code by hand.
• we have the idea of 'witifying' some of the VS Code API so that extensions can be implemented in languages that compile to WASM. Having idiomatic TS interfaces helps with this since the whole VS Code API is defined in TS.

[ricochet]

@dbaeumer if you are available, I also strongly recommend attending https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/announcing-componentize-the-world where @guybedford will be leading the workgroup around the JS ecosystem.

[tschneidereit]

As Bailey said, it'd be fantastic if you could join us for that event! What you're describing sounds extremely cool, and exactly like one of the things we mean when talking about componentizing the world 😊

[dbaeumer]

@ricochet @tschneidereit I already signed up for the workshop. Looking forward to seeing you there.

[guybedford]

Hey @dbaeumer, I finally had a read through the links you posted here and this is very exciting work, thanks for posting here! I was working last week on some demo material for my talk and ended up using a similar console style demo to show some of the possibilities. You likely won't believe me at this point that it was before I read through all your links! It's a great use case. The TypeScript generation you have is looking fantastic as well. One issue we have is we have some subtle differences between lifting and lowering types for JavaScript due to slight differences in the coercions, which seemed worth capturing (ie inputs from JS are more flexibly typed than outputs). It would be great to swap notes on the TS generation, and of course your use cases focus some great considerations for the work that would be great to discuss. Look forward to meeting then.

[guybedford]

There were some really great conversations here all around, nice to see the various follow-ups!