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by 9d 368 days ago
Mostly I meant WASM as a platform (waap?) which seems so futuristic to me. I hope one day all OSes can natively run WASM code, though I'm not sold on WASI since then we're back to square one with security it seems.
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The future happened in the 90's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)

I'd like to see an Inferno with a WASM runtime that utilizes a Plan 9 like ABI/API instead of WASI. Node9 did similar but with Lua: https://github.com/jvburnes/node9

I wouldn't say square one. It's still way simpler to control what a program can do. The host runtime decides what's on the other side of those WASI calls.