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by smitherfield 3522 days ago
Right now it's more like Flash or Java applets, running in a sandbox within a sandbox.
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Huh? WebAssembly, like asm.js before it, can access Web APIs (albeit via JS).
Not exactly. You have to export those APIs into the WebAssembly module. It's certainly possible to have a WASM implementation that doesn't provide web APIs, but is still WASM.