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I realize this is likely to be the most likely way native WASM apps are implemented because it's the most obvious to web developers, but I also think it's the wrong approach.

Webassembly.org's own docs mention that it's intended to be agnostic about its runtime environment[0]. Electron is for packaging HTML, CSS and JS into a "native" application, but WASM doesn't actually need that if it's running outside the web.

Why not a native runtime on top of a cross-platform library like SDL? Just because it's "Web Assembly" doesn't mean it has to be limited to webdev paradigms.

[0]http://webassembly.org/docs/non-web/



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