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Wasm is great for sandboxing so iOS could make Wasm first-class native citizen. Then Wasm module could have access to anything and everything iOS and one could
by GreaterFool 7y ago
Wasm is great for sandboxing so iOS could make Wasm first-class native citizen. Then Wasm module could have access to anything and everything iOS and one could write "native" iOS applications using any language that compiles to Wasm.
- manwe150 7y agoIs it though (a good sandbox, I mean)? A modern OS already tries very hard to be a sandbox that can run anything. What does Wasm bring to the table for iOS? I also feel like this is just a weird year for software, because we've got Wasm making huge strides ("let's make it easy to sandbox everything like javascript"), discovered Spectre ("oops, our assumptions about javascript being a good sandbox were maybe wrong, we apparently need to use hardware-enforced process separation"), but also many other permutations of these things in other spaces (such as the WSL2 announcement of a new integrated Windows-Linux environment, vs. containers vs. VMs vs. WSL1 vs. Wine vs. micro-services).