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I am curious about the browser compatibility layer.

Does it support networking? (And if so, is it using a proxy to connect to the internet or is it using a virtualized network layer that stays in the browser?)

How is fork implemented? (Asyncify all the code?)

I was looking at the Github org page (https://github.com/wasix-org), but I can't figure out where this stuff is.



wasi is wasm applied outside of the browser

it's basically nonsensical to try to adapt wasi in the browser


I don't necessarily disagree, but implementing these things in your custom runtime is easy. I am more interested in how they achieved them in the more constrained browser environment.


They claim they did it. That's what we're talking about. Did you read the article?


i'm sure they did it, that's fine

my point is that this is a nonsensical thing to do


its only nonsense from ones perspective... from another perspective it makes a lot of sense - if one wants to create a fully sandboxed browser terminal (benefits of which are huge). then compiling bash to WASM goes a long way as who wants to rewrite all that terminal code anyway?

https://wasmer.sh/


syrus sockpuppet be gone


glad you like my sock(et) work indeed

https://github.com/john-sharratt/wasix-witx/commit/3b1469687...

now I know its hard to imagine someone other than your personal boogeyman contributing value to the open source world, but there is a real need for me to keep my coding skills up to scratch and it just so happens that `wasmer.io` are the coolest kids in WASM town right now, so I'll share my spare time with them thanks.


wasmer has a well-documented history of malicious behavior, they are very clearly not the coolest kids in WASM town, and very clearly not who you want to be aligning yourself with, but of course do whatever you like :shrug:




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