tokera

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by tokera 3y ago
> Why don't you respond to their argument I did > But Wasmer Edge does not run close to most customers and does not run on their browser. It does run in the browser, that is what https://wasmer.sh uses to launch thing
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by tokera 3y ago
"Edge" refers to the fact the workload runs close to the customer either a few network hops away or on their browser. In traditional Cloud Computing the customer must "select" where it runs (i.e. pick a data centre or re
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by tokera 3y ago
glad you like my sock(et) work indeed https://github.com/john-sharratt/wasix-witx/commit/3b1469687... now I know its hard to imagine someone other than your personal boogeyman contributing value to the open s
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by tokera 3y ago
Twitter Community Notes: * WASIX does not allow one to open a random file in the host environment, in fact WASIX changed absolutely nothing in file system ABI's at all from preview1 - it just added other extensions. * WASIX has not rem
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by tokera 3y ago
i coded the WASIX fork syscall, so I understand all this (f.y.i. I much prefer rust to C as its got a much better designed threading system). what you must realize is that one does not have to use a syscall if they don't like it in (e.
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by tokera 3y ago
i dont think Linus intended his operating system code to land rocket ships on barges either but hey... we can forgive him.
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by tokera 3y ago
its only nonsense from ones perspective... from another perspective it makes a lot of sense - if one wants to create a fully sandboxed browser terminal (benefits of which are huge). then compiling bash to WASM goes a long way as who wants t
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by tokera 3y ago
rust compiles to WASM as-well without those flaws. the fact one even has a choice is the whole point
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by tokera 3y ago
preview2 still need these to be added: - full Berkley socket support - sub-process spawning, waiting - forking - TTY support - pipes - event streams - DNS resolving - longjmp/setjmp without these we can't compile our favorite apps
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by tokera 3y ago
(WASIX insider) lets reflect on this - if this was done as pull requests to `preview1` then would it have been accepted?... it would have received rejection comments around even the idea of these particular POSIX compatible syscalls. WASIX