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+# Practicing Rust and WebAssembly
+
+If you've stumbled on this repository, welcome! It's just not a code library or
+anything, just a collection of small toy programs that I've either copied or
+implemented to understand better how Rust and Web Assembly work. If you find it
+useful, feel free to look around, but don't expect any eye-opening miracles.
+It's just some code.
+
+## rust-wasi-markdown
+
+[rust-wasi-markdown](./rust-wasi-markdown) was the first thing implemented. It
+demonstrates how a Wasmtime Engine is instantiated, how a Module is loaded, how
+a Store is created, how an Import is created so that host functions can be
+called from inside a running module, how an Instance takes the Module, Store,
+and Import and creates a running instance, how functions from that Instance can
+be located, and once located how they can be run.
+
+Which is, what, 80% of eveything you need, right? Pareto principle and all that.
+
+