Re:How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browser
by CyberRabbi on Saturday December 19, 2020 @10:30PM
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My point was exactly that you don’t necessarily write your code for an embedded environment in the seccomp model. You provide code in a dynamic library format and the normal dynamic linker links the necessary calls (e.g. malloc) at runtime, exactly as a wasm would provide that environment (via WASI or whatever). Since those calls are all only implemented in terms of write,read,exit,and sigreturn you are guaranteed a high level of security.
Wasm is no different in this regard. You don’t get libc for free with wasm. The only thing you get with a wasm format is memory bounds checking but again that isn’t necessary in the seccomp model.
It's obvious why they went for WASM instead.