How might we use wiki-functions? Let’s explore.
Certainly I (David Bovill) can imagine making my library of LiveCode functions available as wiki-functions. Better still I can co-operate with the LiveCode community to create standard libraries of functions that are made available to the community.
This would work best as I understand it as wasm based wiki-functions, together with JavaScript. I have probably around 10-20,000 functions in my library organised fairly well, and all of which I own the copyright so can easily open source. I figure that the wasm exports (which are new in Livecode) would be based less on libraries, but rather on the microservice or “controller” functionality as developed for Platform Earth Microservices. This is all a little speculative until we know more about how wiki functions will work, and more about how well the Livecode wasm export works.
More concrete is how standardised JavaScript libraries might work. Exploring this together with demo and the Wiki Interoperability Project is quite an intriguing possibility.
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