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gouh | 7 years ago

This sounds great. Basically the web created a cross platform & sandboxed API to access everything we need (Camera, Sensors, OpenGl through WebGl, etc.) but it was very opinionated (for historical reasons) as it imposes the slow JS, the DOM, CSS/HTML etc.

Now this is the same idea but, this time, one layer lower so that we can have performance, the language we want, etc. This is kind what I always wished would happen.

It will be interesting to see how the sandboxing will work with already existing sandboxing solutions. For e.g a WebAssembly app packaged as a Android/Flatpak/UWP/etc. , there will be the need to make mappings between the permissions of the two sandbox systems. Or even maybe one day we'll have the Webassembly sandbox as the only sandbox (like in https://github.com/nebulet/nebulet)

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