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WASM may offer the most secure-by-default installations of Wordpress to ever exist. This is seriously impressive -- I think we're getting a glimpse of a world

WASM may offer the most secure-by-default installations of Wordpress to ever exist. This is seriously impressive -- I think we're getting a glimpse of a world where people can really run server side apps on their computers easily. Add an app store and the web will have finished becoming the platform that everyone has been suspecting it is.

croes 4y ago
And thanks to Chrome one severe bug will effect all around the globe. Monocultures are susceptible to pests and diseases
- maven29 4y ago
  Can't be worse than unpatched wordpress plugins.
  - croes 4y ago
    I bet there are more Chrome installations then Wordpress
    - nulbyte 4y ago
      I bet they are more up to date than most WordPress installations.
- rwalle 4y ago
  People are already using Chrome or Chromium-based browser all over the world. VSCode, Spotify, Teams, Slack, Figma and many others use Electron or CEF which are based on Chromium. It is not necessarily going to be a bigger risk what what we have now. And I am sure a severe bug in Qt will also affect almost everyone, no different from the Chromium situation. And I trust the Chromium/Electron community more than the random "another cross-platform UI framework" that pops up on hacker news that probably will not be maintained in a year. (I am some people don't like this sentence but they have to face the fact.)
- 5350-uiop-1130 4y ago
  fixing a problem, by creating a new problem(s). that's what we do here.
  - giovannibonetti 4y ago
    Which is progress, as long as the new problem is smaller than the old one.
    - deleted 4y ago
      [deleted]
Existenceblinks 4y ago
So from user perspective, they still have to run it like they would run local web server but more secure? It's improvement security wise, though it's still hustle for app distribution right?
- hardwaresofton 4y ago
  Yup, that's why I put in that last part: > Add an app store and the web will have finished becoming the platform that everyone has been suspecting it is. Basically what we need now is a user-side "app store" that downloads apps packaged as WASM and runs them! Honestly this setup could probably work today, use something like Tauri[0] to build a simple app-store like experience. When someone installs an app, this thing downloads the WASM, and runs it with the necessary linked modules (local file access, network). Then, you can spin up a new window that is the new application, and keep it running/do whatever else users would expect. I mean you could even launch the apps standalone/separate processes as well so that people can close the original one (or put it to tray, whatever). This could easily be like snap/flatpak but even better in some ways. Browser technology is almost assured to always be moving forward and getting more powerful/impressive because of the large interests involved.
  - iampims 4y ago
    https://wapm.io/ https://wapm.io/
    - hardwaresofton 4y ago
      I'm thinking something a little more consumer focused than wapm. Maybe the tool I'm describing could use wapm. Consumers don't use CLIs to install things.

croes 4y ago

And thanks to Chrome one severe bug will effect all around the globe. Monocultures are susceptible to pests and diseases

maven29 4y ago
Can't be worse than unpatched wordpress plugins.
- croes 4y ago
  I bet there are more Chrome installations then Wordpress
  - nulbyte 4y ago
    I bet they are more up to date than most WordPress installations.
rwalle 4y ago
People are already using Chrome or Chromium-based browser all over the world. VSCode, Spotify, Teams, Slack, Figma and many others use Electron or CEF which are based on Chromium. It is not necessarily going to be a bigger risk what what we have now. And I am sure a severe bug in Qt will also affect almost everyone, no different from the Chromium situation. And I trust the Chromium/Electron community more than the random "another cross-platform UI framework" that pops up on hacker news that probably will not be maintained in a year. (I am some people don't like this sentence but they have to face the fact.)
5350-uiop-1130 4y ago
fixing a problem, by creating a new problem(s). that's what we do here.
- giovannibonetti 4y ago
  Which is progress, as long as the new problem is smaller than the old one.
  - deleted 4y ago
    [deleted]

Existenceblinks 4y ago

So from user perspective, they still have to run it like they would run local web server but more secure? It's improvement security wise, though it's still hustle for app distribution right?

hardwaresofton 4y ago
Yup, that's why I put in that last part: > Add an app store and the web will have finished becoming the platform that everyone has been suspecting it is. Basically what we need now is a user-side "app store" that downloads apps packaged as WASM and runs them! Honestly this setup could probably work today, use something like Tauri[0] to build a simple app-store like experience. When someone installs an app, this thing downloads the WASM, and runs it with the necessary linked modules (local file access, network). Then, you can spin up a new window that is the new application, and keep it running/do whatever else users would expect. I mean you could even launch the apps standalone/separate processes as well so that people can close the original one (or put it to tray, whatever). This could easily be like snap/flatpak but even better in some ways. Browser technology is almost assured to always be moving forward and getting more powerful/impressive because of the large interests involved.
- iampims 4y ago
  https://wapm.io/ https://wapm.io/
  - hardwaresofton 4y ago
    I'm thinking something a little more consumer focused than wapm. Maybe the tool I'm describing could use wapm. Consumers don't use CLIs to install things.