> There are no cross-platform APIs for something as simple as "blit a bunch of pixels to the screen" anyway, so WASI is pretty much free to define its own. [..]

> There are no cross-platform APIs for something as simple as "blit a bunch of pixels to the screen" anyway, so WASI is pretty much free to define its own. [..] compatibility with web APIs is useful Personally I think Web compatibility is so useful that wasm off the Web should use Web APIs, instead of the direction WASI is going. WASI is an effort to create a new OS API layer from scratch, without the baggage of POSIX or the Web or such. That's definitely interesting, and may be a big deal in the long run, but it has risks (it will take a lot longer, in particular) and it has downsides for the Web (which is personally the platform I care most about).