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by muvlon 8 days ago
> WASI still leaves something to be desired. Why can't I have raw sockets and file access and stuff, in a POSIX-like way?

FWIW, that's exactly what they shipped first, with WASI preview 1 (wasip1). You can still use this today, and all runtimes with any level of WASI support will be able to run it.
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phickey 8 days ago
Wasip1 did not specify sockets. Some implementations have made non-standard additions to add them, but sockets were not added to the standard until wasip2.
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muvlon 8 days ago
Sockets are officially specified in wasip1: https://wasi.dev/releases/wasi-p1

Notably, listen and connect are missing. But sockets themselves were in there.

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