[phkahler]

From TFA:

>> Mozilla this week announced a project called WASI (WebAssembly System Interface) to standardize how WebAssembly code interacts with operating systems.

This is just another implementation of holes that allow web sites access to the rest of your system. It really is supposed to be the operating systems job to manage resources and what can be accessed. The problem is this functionality keeps getting re-implemented by others with different agendas.

[burnte]

> This is just another implementation of holes that allow web sites access to the rest of your system.

Well, unlike systems designed in the 90s, it's designed for the modern "everything-is-a-threat" mindset rather than the optimism of the 90s that everything would be safe.

[TUSF]

What? No. WASI isn't meant to be implemented by the browser. It's meant for WASM runtimes outside of the browser, like Lucet and Wasmer.

People have been experimenting with "WASM outside the browser" for a while now, and WASI is just an API for making OS calls that a runtime can implement.

[redbergy]

I thought the point of WASI was to give you an API that allows you to bring your WebAssembly apps out of the browser and run on the OS itself, not to allow deeper integration of the app in a browser to the underlying OS.

Edit: words