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		nix0n on March 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PartialExecuter: Reducing WebAssembly size by expl... Is this true of server side only, or is there a practical solution for locking down JS within the browser?

the_duke on March 15, 2022 [–]

Wasm has no access to any browser APIs by default, so yes.

You can expose the required functionality via JavaScript bridges.

The current Rust (wasm-bindgen) and C/C++ (emscripten) tooling exposes the the whole browser API by default though, which isn't ideal.

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