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This is one of the most impressive things I've seen lately built on top of WebAssembly. I remember some years ago (10ish?) there was a push of Operating Systems in the browser, but they all mostly became unused long-term because the browser APIs where not as powerful then as they are now. I think those new APIs along with Wasm support changes completely that assumption.

Good work!




But wasm doesn't provide those kind of APIs, anything we see here should be available on JS too.


You are completely right. Let me rephrase things a bit so it's more clear!


wasm comes into play for things like dos emulator.


Thanks! I have been inspired by Web Desktops of the past. It was indeed more popular about a decade ago. I am hoping it's having a resurgence.




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