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The OSS community has an easier time supporting it than when there's only a crappy windows binary blob?
by tehbeard 5y ago
The OSS community has an easier time supporting it than when there's only a crappy windows binary blob?
- mschuster91 5y agoA crappy WebASM blob or heavily obfuscated JS blob is similar to a crappy windows binary blob, though.
- kitsunesoba 5y agoProbably worse, because at least there’s well established tooling for reverse engineering Windows binary drivers, allowing for someone to eventually write FOSS drivers.
- RReverser 5y agoI don't think it's worse because: 1) Wasm was designed to be easily decompilable / convertible to a text assembly representation by design, whereas for other platforms it requires fairly sophisticated disassemblers 2) Wasm can interact with the outside world (any I/O) only via explicitly defined import points, which are easy to intercept and/or replicate even if you don't know what's inside the binary itself.