alt Hacker NewsIt's still there - you can still do I/O in C, even if you have to call a library function. In WebAssembly, there's no mechanism for I/O of any sort.
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cookiengineer • yesterday at 8:40 PM
There is, it is just called WASI and it specifies syscalls in a different way.
WebASM is an assembly-like dialect, after all.
flohofwoe • yesterday at 8:32 PM
...in WASM you also call a function to do IO though? That function is just provided by the host environment via the function import table, but conceptually it's the exact same thing as a Linux syscall, a BIOS int-call or calling into a Windows system DLL.
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But that's not the (original) argument being made. Just as IO belongs in POSIX and not C, DOM access belongs in some other standard, not WASM