I wasn't sure how long to keep the code around as an optional feature. However, the latest wasmtime release pins serde to a version, which is incompatible with the latest (somewhat stale) deno/V8/SWC dependencies. In other words, updating wasmtime right now would break the V8 build :/. The state of the rustyscript/deno dependency chain had certainly been one of the driving factors to move to WASM. While it feels validating, it's a little sad to see V8 go... but at the least we want to make the removal eplicit (as opposed to a broken build) with this change.
This lets us simplify the parsing and add back a lot of type-safety (including int64). As a side-effect, we basically had to complete reqrite the record insert/update handling in the admin UI.
Note, however, that this is a breaking change, since it touches serialization between WASM guests and host. Guest will need to be built against an updated guest runtime.
Something like this could involve into a plugin eco-system but that is a long way. Also this is not a package/dependency manager, there's no notion of transitivity etc.
Sebastian Jeltsch