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Announcing WASI: WebAssembly's standard system interface

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An introduction to WASI, a standardized system interface designed to let WebAssembly run securely outside the browser.

Just as WebAssembly is an assembly language for a conceptual machine, WebAssembly needs a system interface for a conceptual operating system, not any single operating system. This is WASI — a system interface for the WebAssembly platform. Read more at hacks.mozilla.org/2019/03/standardizing-wasi-a-webassembly-s…

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What people say. Recommended as a clear explanation of how WASI allows running WebAssembly with strict sandboxed permissions.

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