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 WASM interpreter (previously lived in [parity-wasm](https://github.com/paritytech/parity-wasm))
 
+Primary purpose of `wasmi` is to be used with [parity](https://github.com/paritytech/parity) (ethereum-like contracts in wasm) and with [Polkadot](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot). However, `wasmi` is designed to be as flexible as possible and might be suited well for other purposes.
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+At the moment, the API is rather low-level (especially, in the part related to host functions). But some high-level API is on the roadmap.
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 # License
 
 `wasmi` is primarily distributed under the terms of both the MIT