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by aduitsis 1183 days ago
Deep respect to the CloudABI folks, a project which inspired the WASI ideas:

> CloudABI is no longer being maintained. It was an awesome experiment, but it never got enough traction to be sustainable. If you like the idea behind CloudABI, please consider looking into the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI). WASI's design has been inspired by CloudABI.

https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudlibc

edit: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/main/docs/... is a good reference and also mentions the Capsicum framework (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/). Which is present in FreeBSD for several versions btw.