Re:Standalone WebAssembly games using I/O devices
by pjc50 on Sunday January 19, 2020 @07:00AM
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I'm not sure why you'd choose webassembly over, say, MSIL for this?
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Re:Standalone WebAssembly games using I/O devices
by wffurr on Sunday January 19, 2020 @07:22AM
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The goal for WASI is a secure-by-default capabilities model for access to system APIs.
It's also an open collaborative cross-vendor specification with at least four different independent implementations.
MSIL/CIL is similar in some ways, but it's still largely only supported by Microsoft and doesn't sandbox binaries the same way. It's an inspiration to We assembly, but not a feasible alternative to it. Similar to Google's PNaCl bytecode.
Some more detail here:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/03/standardizing-wasi-a-webas...
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/11/announcing-the-bytecode-al... "secure-by-default foundations for native development that are portable and scalable."