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So... don't completely discard native desktop apps just yet? That said, I suspect we'll soon see something akin to Eelctron for WebAssembly: a toolkit for maki

by mikece 7y ago

So... don't completely discard native desktop apps just yet? That said, I suspect we'll soon see something akin to Eelctron for WebAssembly: a toolkit for making UIs that acts as a permissions context/bridge to making calls into the host operating system's API. Or maybe WebAssembly won't be the revolutionary tidal wave of change that many of its proponents hope it will be?

jtbayly 7y ago
Won’t that be a security nightmare?
- kowdermeister 7y ago
  Electron apps can already access the host OS, spawn child processes: https://github.com/martinjackson/electron-run-shell-example https://github.com/martinjackson/electron-run-shell-example
- mikece 7y ago
  Depends on how well the sandboxing it set up, I suppose.
- Sean1708 7y ago
  Surely it wouldn't be any more of a security than a native app, since this hypothetical Electrasm would itself be a native app?
kowdermeister 7y ago
It can already make use of WebAssembly: https://github.com/anderejd/electron-wasm-rust-example https://github.com/anderejd/electron-wasm-rust-example