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So... don't completely discard native desktop apps just yet? That said, I suspect we'll soon see something akin to Eelctron for WebAssembly: a toolkit for making UIs that acts as a permissions context/bridge to making calls into the host operating system's API. Or maybe WebAssembly won't be the revolutionary tidal wave of change that many of its proponents hope it will be?

It can already make use of WebAssembly:

https://github.com/anderejd/electron-wasm-rust-example

Won’t that be a security nightmare?

Electron apps can already access the host OS, spawn child processes:

https://github.com/martinjackson/electron-run-shell-example

Depends on how well the sandboxing it set up, I suppose.

Surely it wouldn't be any more of a security than a native app, since this hypothetical Electrasm would itself be a native app?

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