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Introduction

Daku is an asynchronous host interface abstraction API for WebAssembly plugins, drivers, applications, and more! Daku is both an API and a file format. Ardaku is an engine you can use for running Daku modules on different Wasm runtimes.

Daku Specification v1.0.0-pre.0 (draft v15)

The current version of Daku targets the full WebAssembly 2.0 spec without any non-standard or experimental features.

Goals

  • Simple
  • Efficient
  • Modular
  • Minimal (in API surface, and memory footprint)
  • Asynchronous
  • Backwards Compatible
  • Reduced context switching
  • Security-first
  • First-class multimedia portals (WASI compatible)