This all misses the bigger point: WASM isn't actually an assembly for the web; it's more of a math co-processor. Limited applications for forseeable future = \https://twitter.com/callahad/status/937728124451786752 …
I have doubts about that timeline; I keep asking to have something sent to the @w3ctag for an early look. Crickets so far.
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Were you asking about host bindings or about GC (which DOM access was expected to be blocked on)? Because host bindings proposal is pretty new, intro-ed to move DOM access ahead of GC. GC is definitely expected to have a longer timeline
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The scale of the API surface needed to access most of the DOM is daunting. I've asked our team to think of it as being similar to thunks to a restricted JS subset (it'd need disaster if only DOM could be bound to)
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