Networking Calls from Ren-C WASI Build?

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@gchiu

As far as I understand it, we need to wait until the hooks for WASI are built into the C/C++ compilers used to build Rebol so that not only can we print "EHLO world" but we can also do networking.

We can:

1. Wait for that to happen (will happen < 1 year, I would bet for certain)

2. Build a bridge to Rust (where the runtime has WASI networking), and have our r3.wasm built as a Rust project that embeds Ren-C.

   • I like Rust, and want a Rust bridge, Shixin started one that I have only glanced at; I know a lot more Rust now than then.

   • The "weird" Rust toolchain isn't necessarily any weirder than a "weird" clang wired up to target WASI, so on the topic of dependencies it's actually a thought-out thing that has some various virtuosities.

3. Have me contribute to Wasi-SDK or Emscripten and write it myself:

   • This is a bad way to burn my cycles on something that will happen anyway.

   • The Rust bridge would be a much more forward looking idea

So default is (1), but maybe (2).