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by Ajedi32 1858 days ago
It can't access the file system, but it could implement an API that emulates a file system inside the browser sandbox. Presumably that's what they're doing here.
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kllrnohj 1857 days ago
But you can do that same API emulation in regular browser JavaScript, too. What's the WASM intermediate buying here?
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maple3142 1857 days ago
I think it is more complicated to emulate those api in normal browser environment compared to emulating some OS api for running node.js.
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kllrnohj 1857 days ago
Why? It's literally JavaScript on both sides - what's complicated here?
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maple3142 1857 days ago
Because many node.js api are written in C/C++, it might be easier to implements OS features instead of rewriting in JS. This is just my assumption.
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