# SciRS2-WASM Implementation Status
## Overview
WebAssembly support has been initiated for SciRS2 v0.2.0. This document tracks implementation progress and remaining work.
**Date**: February 8, 2026
**Target Version**: v0.2.0
**Status**: 🚧 In Progress (70% Complete)
## ✅ Completed Work
### 1. Project Structure ✓
- [x] Created `scirs2-wasm` crate directory structure
- [x] Set up proper Cargo.toml with WASM dependencies
- [x] Added to workspace members
- [x] Created .cargo/config.toml for WASM builds
- [x] Set up .gitignore for WASM artifacts
### 2. Core WASM Bindings ✓
- [x] Main library initialization (`lib.rs`)
- [x] Error handling module (`error.rs`)
- [x] Utility functions (`utils.rs`)
- [x] Array operations module (`array.rs`)
- Array creation (zeros, ones, linspace, arange)
- Element-wise operations (add, subtract, multiply, divide)
- Matrix operations (dot product, transpose, reshape)
- Reductions (sum, mean, min, max)
- [x] Random number generation (`random.rs`)
- Uniform distribution
- Normal distribution
- Integer random values
- Exponential distribution
- [x] Statistical functions (`stats.rs`)
- Descriptive statistics (mean, std, variance, median)
- Percentiles
- Correlation coefficient
- Cumulative operations (cumsum, cumprod)
- [x] Linear algebra (`linalg.rs`)
- Matrix determinant
- Matrix inverse
- Matrix trace
- Matrix rank
- Frobenius norm
- Linear system solver
### 3. JavaScript/TypeScript Support ✓
- [x] package.json configuration
- [x] Build scripts for different targets (bundler, web, nodejs)
- [x] wasm-pack integration
- [x] TypeScript type definitions (auto-generated)
- [x] NPM package metadata
### 4. Testing Infrastructure ✓
- [x] WASM-specific test file (`tests/wasm_tests.rs`)
- [x] Browser testing support (Firefox, Chrome)
- [x] Node.js testing support
- [x] Test utilities
### 5. Examples and Documentation ✓
- [x] Interactive HTML example (`www/index.html`)
- [x] Node.js example (`examples/node_example.js`)
- [x] Comprehensive README.md
- [x] WASM Development Guide (WASM_GUIDE.md)
- [x] API documentation
### 6. CI/CD ✓
- [x] GitHub Actions workflow (`.github/workflows/wasm.yml`)
- Build pipeline for debug and release
- Cross-browser testing
- Node.js testing
- WASM optimization with wasm-opt
- SIMD build support
- Performance benchmarks
- Documentation generation
### 7. Build Configuration ✓
- [x] WASM target configuration
- [x] Size optimization profiles
- [x] LTO and panic=abort settings
- [x] getrandom WASM backend configuration
## 🚧 In Progress
### 1. Dependency Compatibility (60% Complete)
- [x] getrandom WASM backend setup
- [x] uuid WASM feature configuration
- [ ] Fix scirs2-core compilation for WASM target
- [ ] Feature-gate non-WASM-compatible code
- [ ] Threading operations
- [ ] GPU operations
- [ ] File system operations
- [ ] Platform-specific SIMD
### 2. Additional Modules (30% Complete)
- [x] Basic array operations
- [x] Statistics
- [x] Linear algebra
- [ ] FFT operations
- [ ] Signal processing
- [ ] Integration
- [ ] Optimization
- [ ] Interpolation
### 3. Advanced Features (20% Complete)
- [x] Basic SIMD support structure
- [ ] Full WASM SIMD (wasm32-simd128) implementation
- [ ] Async operations with wasm-bindgen-futures
- [ ] Web Workers support
- [ ] SharedArrayBuffer integration
- [ ] Streaming operations
## ❌ Remaining Work
### High Priority
1. **Fix scirs2-core WASM Compatibility**
- Issue: Compilation errors when targeting wasm32-unknown-unknown
- Solution: Add feature flags to disable incompatible features
- Files to modify:
- `scirs2-core/Cargo.toml`
- `scirs2-core/src/lib.rs`
- Platform-specific modules
2. **Feature-Gate Non-WASM Code**
```toml
# Add to scirs2-core Cargo.toml
[features]
wasm = [] # Enable WASM-compatible features only
```
3. **Implement Missing Modules**
- FFT (`fft.rs`)
- Signal processing (`signal.rs`)
- Integration (`integrate.rs`)
- Optimization (`optimize.rs`)
4. **Complete Testing**
- Run all WASM tests
- Cross-browser compatibility testing
- Performance benchmarking
- Memory leak testing
### Medium Priority
1. **TypeScript Definitions Enhancement**
- Add JSDoc comments
- Create manual .d.ts for complex types
- Add usage examples in comments
2. **Example Applications**
- Create webpack example
- Create Vite example
- Create Next.js example
- Create React example
3. **Performance Optimization**
- Implement WASM SIMD for hot paths
- Optimize memory layout
- Reduce JS<->WASM boundary crossings
- Implement zero-copy operations
4. **Documentation**
- API reference documentation
- Migration guide from NumPy/SciPy
- Performance tuning guide
- Browser compatibility matrix
### Low Priority
1. **Advanced Features**
- Multi-threading with Web Workers
- GPU compute via WebGPU
- Streaming large datasets
- Progressive loading
2. **Developer Experience**
- VSCode extension
- Playground website
- Interactive tutorials
- Benchmark dashboard
3. **Ecosystem Integration**
- Observable notebook support
- Jupyter notebook support
- TensorFlow.js integration
- Chart.js integration
## 🐛 Known Issues
### Build Issues
1. **scirs2-core WASM compilation**
- Error: E0753 expected outer doc comment
- Error: E0283 type annotations needed
- Cause: Some code not compatible with wasm32-unknown-unknown target
- Workaround: Use feature flags to disable problematic code
2. **Dependency version conflicts**
- getrandom 0.2 vs 0.3
- Solution: Use target-specific dependencies
### Runtime Issues
1. **Memory limitations**
- WASM has 4GB memory limit
- Solution: Implement chunked processing
2. **Performance variability**
- Browser differences in WASM optimization
- Solution: Provide multiple build profiles
## 📋 Next Steps
### Immediate (This Week)
1. Fix scirs2-core WASM compilation
- Add `wasm` feature flag
- Conditionally compile incompatible code
- Test build succeeds
2. Complete basic testing
- Ensure all existing tests pass
- Add more coverage for edge cases
3. Create working examples
- Verify HTML example works
- Test Node.js example
- Create simple benchmark
### Short Term (This Month)
1. Implement remaining core modules
- FFT
- Signal processing
- Basic optimization
2. Optimize performance
- Enable SIMD where beneficial
- Profile and optimize hot paths
- Reduce bundle size
3. Enhance documentation
- Complete API reference
- Add migration guide
- Create tutorial series
### Long Term (Next Quarter)
1. Advanced features
- Web Workers support
- WebGPU integration
- Streaming operations
2. Ecosystem integration
- NPM package publication
- CDN distribution
- Framework examples
3. Community building
- Create website
- Write blog posts
- Present at conferences
## 📊 Progress Metrics
| Project Structure | 100% | ✅ Complete |
| Core Bindings | 100% | ✅ Complete |
| JavaScript Support | 100% | ✅ Complete |
| Testing Infrastructure | 100% | ✅ Complete |
| Documentation | 80% | 🚧 In Progress |
| CI/CD | 100% | ✅ Complete |
| Dependency Compatibility | 60% | 🚧 In Progress |
| Additional Modules | 30% | 🚧 In Progress |
| Advanced Features | 20% | 🚧 In Progress |
| **Overall** | **70%** | **🚧 In Progress** |
## 🔧 Build Commands
### Development
```bash
# Build for development
cd scirs2-wasm
wasm-pack build --dev --target bundler
# Run tests
wasm-pack test --headless --firefox
# Test in Node.js
wasm-pack test --node
```
### Production
```bash
# Build for production
wasm-pack build --release --target bundler
# Optimize
wasm-opt -Oz -o pkg/scirs2_wasm_bg_opt.wasm pkg/scirs2_wasm_bg.wasm
# Publish to NPM (when ready)
cd pkg
npm publish
```
### Cross-Platform
```bash
# Build for web
wasm-pack build --target web
# Build for Node.js
wasm-pack build --target nodejs
# Build with SIMD
RUSTFLAGS='-C target-feature=+simd128' \
wasm-pack build --release --features simd
```
## 📝 Notes
### Design Decisions
1. **Pure Rust**: All code is 100% safe Rust, compiled to WASM
2. **Feature Flags**: Use features to enable/disable modules
3. **Size vs Speed**: Default builds optimize for size (-Oz)
4. **Browser First**: Primary target is modern browsers
5. **Progressive Enhancement**: Start simple, add features incrementally
### Technical Constraints
1. **No Threading**: Standard WASM doesn't support threads
2. **No File System**: Browser WASM has no direct file access
3. **Memory Limit**: 4GB maximum WASM memory
4. **Startup Cost**: WASM compilation adds initial delay
### Performance Targets
- **Load Time**: < 1 second on 3G connection
- **Initialization**: < 100ms
- **Operations**: 70-90% of native performance
- **Memory**: < 10MB for basic operations
## 🤝 Contributing
To contribute to WASM support:
1. Check this document for open tasks
2. Create an issue for discussion
3. Submit PR with tests
4. Update this status document
## 📚 Resources
- [wasm-bindgen Book](https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/)
- [wasm-pack Documentation](https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-pack/)
- [Rust WASM Book](https://rustwasm.github.io/docs/book/)
- [WebAssembly Specification](https://webassembly.github.io/spec/)
- [MDN WebAssembly](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly)
## 📄 License
Apache-2.0
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**Last Updated**: February 8, 2026
**Maintained By**: COOLJAPAN OU (Team KitaSan)