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Re:Show HN: Munal OS: a graphical experimental OS with WASM ... by 9d on Monday June 09, 2025 @03:42PM (#44228564)
Mostly I meant WASM as a platform (waap?) which seems so futuristic to me. I hope one day all OSes can natively run WASM code, though I'm not sold on WASI since then we're back to square one with security it seems.
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Re:Show HN: Munal OS: a graphical experimental OS with WASM ... by MisterTea on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @04:14PM (#44240983)
The future happened in the 90's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)

I'd like to see an Inferno with a WASM runtime that utilizes a Plan 9 like ABI/API instead of WASI. Node9 did similar but with Lua: https://github.com/jvburnes/node9

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Re:Show HN: Munal OS: a graphical experimental OS with WASM ... by apitman on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @05:10PM (#44241468)
I wouldn't say square one. It's still way simpler to control what a program can do. The host runtime decides what's on the other side of those WASI calls.
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