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Re:WebAssembly is more than the web by white-flame on Saturday July 14, 2018 @03:08AM (#17529213)
While this would supplant "C for speed" libraries, it wouldn't supplant "C for OS access" libraries. At some point, system code needs to call the OS.
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Re:WebAssembly is more than the web by pjmlp on Saturday July 14, 2018 @04:48AM (#17529454)
Not all OS were or are written in C.
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Re:WebAssembly is more than the web by white-flame on Saturday July 14, 2018 @04:54AM (#17529472)
Sure, replace "C" with whatever OS language is appropriate. The situation is still the same: wasm doesn't talk directly to the host interfaces, regardless of it being low-level. You'd still need another FFI layer somewhere to talk to those.
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