Consider WebAssembly instead of JavaScript for jsii

[eladb]

WebAssembly is gaining traction, if we can execute it in all target languages and source languages can compile to it, then it might be an awesome common runtime for jsii modules. Probably still early to decide (copy @buffovich, #83)

[rix0rrr]

Yes!

[buffovich]

Impossible to transpile dynamic stuff though. Even JavaScript. So far it can't be considered as a common denominator to all languages like JVM or .NET However, you can use it for all statically typed languages compilation.

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[eduardomourar]

Now that we have the interface types proposal Webassembly Component Model, it should be possible to use a tool such as wit-bindgen to generate the runtime for the different languages supported by JSII.

[RichiCoder1]

It's a bit esoteric, but there are some interesting projects out there for running JavaScript on WASM that might make a bridge solution possible: https://github.com/Shopify/javy https://www.fermyon.com/wasm-languages/javascript