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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by flohofwoe on Friday September 22, 2017 @12:51PM (#15313794)
WebAssembly itself is just (more or less) an instruction set, not a complete runtime platform. It doesn't define APIs for rendering, audio, input, filesystem access, networking, etc...

Electron provides all that, but at the very high cost of shipping a complete browser runtime with your app.

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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by kodablah on Friday September 22, 2017 @03:05PM (#15314847)
Yup, we need an stdlib (and not libc)
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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by primeblue on Friday September 22, 2017 @03:54PM (#15315235)
Oh don't you worry, that will come and we'll be free of that ugly JavaScript thing.
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