pwasm 0.2a0

Release: pwasm 0.2a0 pwasm is one of my folly projects - an entirely vibe-coded pure Python WebAssembly engine that I built in January during my first bout of AI mania . I hadn't touched it since January, so I decided to let Claude Opus 5.5 loose on it and see if it could make any significant improvements: Evaluate current state of pwasm - then consider what it would take to get the MicroPython…

simonwillison.net ·2026-10-01

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