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 v12)

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)