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The new OS I am creating https://www.exaequos.com is WebAssembly in a POSIX environment. So it is running in every web browser
It is super nice with the local first approach, and I wonder what it would take to be able to `mount https://example.org` from `test.com`, if both websites are running the "wasm web OS" your linked to.
Cheers!
I thought the Unix philosophy was do one thing well: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Do_One_Thing_and_... how is running anything through a giant virtual machine (web browser) anywhere close to that? the browser is the monolith people. using a web browser to deliver an application is, always has been, and always will be the slowest, and most bloated way to do that. the benefit of course is, that the result…
Wasn't there some kind of components proposal that would let modules written in different languages running in web assembly interop with each other? WASI is great but there was an opportunity to standardize on something much more powerful. Anyway I think the logical extreme of Unix philosophy started with Unix, moved on to Plan 9, and continued to improve from there. It's just that those further advancements are less…
Wasi co-chair and Wasmtime maintainer here: we agree! Wasi Preview 1, which this article is about, was a first attempt at porting some of these Unix ideas to Wasm. We found pretty quickly that unix isn't the right abstraction for Wasm. Not only is it not really portable to platforms like Windows without reinventing a compatibility layer like cygwin, it also doesn't really make sense in a Web embedding, where users en…
In this paradigm, the browser's URL Omnibox can also be used as CLI/repel/input. So each "URL or search" to a browser, can open an app that accepts commands and inputs, and allows outputs, through the interfaces, or back to URLSearchParams (which could then be piped again). Maybe related (diclaimer: working on it), https://github.com/internet4000/find ; can be used with "local first web apps", and all the web "apps"…
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Only if the NAND gate is expressed as a file
Okay… please… someone implement ‘nand’ and write a script that does something simple using only it.
and my implementation of the projects: https://github.com/porridgewithraisins/nand2tetris
The new OS I am creating https://www.exaequos.com is WebAssembly in a POSIX environment. So it is running in every web browser
The talk was amusing but much less interesting than it could be. Yes, we have adapters and shims and they make interfacing easier, sometimes. I guess after all these years of waiting for WebAssembly to actually be useful (as in: I can write apps as easily as I can on desktop, with similar performance, but with the safety guarantees of a web sandbox), I finally realized what I wanted: web pages that are backed by virt…
I have found quite the opposite to be true in the real world, but Xe gets a special exemption for being a consistently high-quality writer and thinker.
The new OS I am creating https://www.exaequos.com is WebAssembly in a POSIX environment. So it is running in every web browser
Oof. My Firefox browser on Ubuntu crashed and all my open VSCodium's went along with it. Happened when loading for a second time. First time worked.
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You were reading HN during a work call ! Call HR !
I'm losing my job soon due to their return to office bullshit. And I was hired as a remote employee. HR can kiss my fuzzy butt lmao
Good luck with the future job hunt.