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by willy_k 893 days ago
> Wouldn’t it be great if there were a libc in the JS world. Something portable and standardised.

I mean, it’s not necessarily “in the JS world”, but WASM is basically that.
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swiftcoder 893 days ago
WASM is explicitly not that. WASM itself has no APIs, it's just an execution envionment.

You may be thinking of WASI?

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sroussey 893 days ago
No it’s not. Problem right now is that every WASM files pulls in its own stdlib. Which is a waste once you use more than one.
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