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Reputation: 25

Run an external App from WebAssembly

I'm trying to get my hands on WebAssembly so I'd like to ask about its capabilities.

1) I'd like to run an external application on a local disk. But according to WebAssembly docs all we can do is work through stdio.h and with preloaded file in virtual file systems. So Any chance to run an external application on a disk through Java/WebAssembly?

2) Is there any support for IPC that other applications could be interacted through Java/WebAssembly?

Or any of these functionality could be achieved differently?

Any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1709

Answers (1)

curiousdannii
curiousdannii

Reputation: 2018

When WebAssembly is run in a web browser it will be sandboxed and have all the usual restrictions any other web page would have.

If you run WASM in Node, then you could call out to Node and then get Node to call out to other processes.

Lastly, there's at least one stand alone implementation of the WASM VM (and probably more), and presumably you could modify it to be able to interact with any other program on your system.

Upvotes: 1

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