0.5 -> 1.0 changes in extism

improvements.md

• Port core of the runtime to wasm: Extism Kernel extism/extism#384
  • Extism is now a portable layer and we are no longer coupled to wasmtime!
• New universal JS-SDK (browser, node, deno, & bun) https://github.com/extism/js-sdk
  • Universal library, no longer a separate node and a browser library
  • Uses native web platform Wasm support and threading (V8 in chrome, Deno, and Node; JSC in bun and Safari; and Spidermonkey in Firefox) instead of wasmtime
• New Go-SDK https://github.com/extism/go-sdk
  • Switched out wasmtime with wazero thanks to the Extism kernel
  • Now no longer requires cgo and has a more idiomatic go API
• Extism-CLI re-written in Go using new go-sdk https://github.com/extism/cli
  • Easier to install than python and installs as a single binary with no separate runtime object or python install
  • much faster
• Major Improvements to Python SDK https://github.com/extism/python-sdk
  • native libextism wheel builds that work across Windows, macOS, and Linux — batteries included!
• Improvements to the Ruby SDK: https://github.com/extism/ruby-sdk
  • Host Function support
  • Support for configs
• Improvements to PHP-SDK: https://github.com/extism/php-sdk
  • Removed ffi library dependency
  • cleaned up and documented codebase
• New experimental D-SDK https://github.com/extism/d-sdk
• New Dotnet PDK https://github.com/extism/dotnet-pdk
  • Develop plug-ins in C# or F#
• New convert crate macros for rust sdk and pdk https://github.com/extism/extism/tree/main/convert#readme
• New Plug-ins repo for test and demo plugins: https://github.com/extism/plugins
• Improvements to C and C++ codebases
  • add building and installing cmake configs, pkg-config configs, and static libraries
  • add macros to C-PDK export functions (alternative to adding link flags)
• Removed Context object extism/extism#421
• Readmes, reference docs, and quickstarts across all the languages
  • Revamped and simpler https://extism.org site