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This could be one of the hardest and most gamechanging UX challenges since email. Because if they get the security model right and allow informed user consent for an app to access a folder it shares with others... then it's a quick step towards POSIX and mmap APIs for WebAssembly. Then the web literally has parity with operating systems.

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I used to be so enthusiastic about stuff like this. Sadly, I don't think this will be cool at all.

I don't think this will ever reach parity with desktop operating systems, because they don't want us using desktop operating systems at all. I would not be at all surprised if the only code that has access to this is signed by Google and maybe hosted on their servers.

Great, a giant WebAssembly blob reading and writing my files. What could go wrong?

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