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Re:WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser by slver on Friday May 21, 2021 @12:10AM (#27230414)
The issue in general is how to bridge these JS OOP APIs to something that's basically assembler.

If WASM gains a foreign object model calling convention or whatever, we're in game.

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Re:WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser by emteycz on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:09AM (#27233007)
Wasm is not basically assembler, it's (going to be) very high level:

- https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types

- https://github.com/webassembly/threads

- https://github.com/WebAssembly/exception-handling

- https://github.com/WebAssembly/function-references

- https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc

Though it is true that the original MVP was very barebone and could be compared to assembler. However, the reference types proposal has been shipped in all major browsers and is considered "finished".

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