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Kind of a dishonest characterization - Flash was sandboxed too. WASM is simply easier to sandbox and has additional constraints that make it easier to keep code
by kevingadd 6y ago
Kind of a dishonest characterization - Flash was sandboxed too. WASM is simply easier to sandbox and has additional constraints that make it easier to keep code from trying to break out.
- charcircuit 6y agoThe parent was talking about how the process the WASM runtime is in is sandboxed. I could be wrong, but I don't think flash did this. I think the sandbox was more of just some limitations on the APIs you were provided.
- kevingadd 6y agoMost modern browsers started running plugins (including Flash) in a sandbox long before WASM or asm.js existed. Firefox's was named 'plugin-container' and for a while its multiprocess support actually piggybacked on that process to do non-plugin things.