Companies in spain use it for legitimate reasons, so its more a lack of usage which makes spam the only usage?

I consider marketing use to be spam, and this is what the API is primarily meant for.

I understand that WhatsApp is kinda special in that it effectively replaced SMS in some parts of the world, but IMO this needs to be looked at through the lens of other Meta effort. The same is the case with Facebook/Messenger, and has been since before WhatsApp has been a (Meta) thing - they offer multiple different official ways to support spamming users and tricking them to buy stuff, but may the Lord have mercy on you should you want to create an auto-responder or "save to calendar" script and hook it up to your personal account.

Who mentioned marketing? It's used for package tracking, order updates, bookings and so on where I live.

Not where I live, presumably not in the US, and it doesn't look like the main use case emphasized in the developer/integration documentation.

Is this the way it begins?

This is another nice one.

It was good to meet at wasm.io!

TinyGo doesnt have networking in WASI[0] and the WASM websocket module[1] was last updated 5 years ago. Go without stdlib is not Go.

[0] https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/issues/4880

[1] https://github.com/Nerzal/tinywebsocket

Interestingly enough for the C and C++ folks, compiler specific dialects for embedded without standard library, are still argued for as if being C and C++.

For embedded systems, see https://github.com/tinygo-org/net

For WASI, check out WASI Preview 2, https://docs.wasmtime.dev/api/wasmtime_wasi/p2/index.html

Thats the host, but the guess is missing, as stated in the issue last year "I guess we could add sockets to wasip2". To be honest, even BigGo failed me on websocket conns on both wasmtime and wazero (connects and gets into an inf loop on reply). WebWorkers and GOOS=js work like a charm tho on BigGo in FF/chrome.

Yeah, I suspect sockets in wasip2, and wasip2 in general, are just now having the bugs shaken out of them.

The company I work for is just now upgrading its edge WASI support to wasip2.

You need state oriented programming to handle that. I know, because I made one. The keyword is „unpredictability”. Embrace nondeterminism.

Contexts was great in its day but hasn't been updated since 2022. DashPane is actively maintained, launched today, and I'm already shipping based on feedback. $4.99 one-time vs $9.99 for something that's no longer being developed.

What if a search engine queried YOU? That’s the question (I guess).

Nice cheatsheet.

What’s AI?