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> I wonder if this will be the future of OSes. If you are talking about the app isolation through virtualization, then I've been living in this future for quit
by fsflover 1y ago
> I wonder if this will be the future of OSes.
If you are talking about the app isolation through virtualization, then I've been living in this future for quite some time with Qubes OS. The isolation there is also extremely reliable.
- 9d 1y agoMostly I meant WASM as a platform (waap?) which seems so futuristic to me. I hope one day all OSes can natively run WASM code, though I'm not sold on WASI since then we're back to square one with security it seems.
- MisterTea 1y agoThe future happened in the 90's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system) I'd like to see an Inferno with a WASM runtime that utilizes a Plan 9 like ABI/API instead of WASI. Node9 did similar but with Lua: https://github.com/jvburnes/node9 https://github.com/jvburnes/node9
- apitman 1y agoI wouldn't say square one. It's still way simpler to control what a program can do. The host runtime decides what's on the other side of those WASI calls.