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The API story for wasm on the web is the set of existing web APIs. That provides the same security model and capabilities as the web has right now. Currently w

by azakai 11y ago

The API story for wasm on the web is the set of existing web APIs. That provides the same security model and capabilities as the web has right now. Currently wasm can't access web APIs except by calling out to JS, which would then call the API, but in the future, direct calling paths are intended.

JoshTriplett 11y ago
My hope is that WebAssembly will start motivating a set of lower-level APIs, with higher-level APIs being provided on top of those by WebAssembly "libraries". JavaScript tends to motivate much higher-level APIs, and you can't turn high-level APIs into low-level APIs, only the other way around.
- tedmielczarek 11y ago
  This seems orthogonal to WebAssembly. This is already a goal for its own sake--see the Extensible Web Manifesto.