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Re:Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly... by Crinus on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:20PM (#19503235)
POSIX != C and from what i understand from the official docs, they already have a (musl derived, even) C library.
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Re:Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @02:42PM (#19504447)
The C stdlib is so married to POSIX they may as well be the same thing.
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Re:Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly... by pjmlp on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @05:53PM (#19506482)
Actually no, go read ISO C and compare it with POSIX expectations.
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Re:Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly... by saagarjha on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @07:39PM (#19507429)
…on UNIX systems. C is still a thing for other platforms e.g. embedded where POSIX is not a thing.
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