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Can you expand on these ideas pls? I’m not sure I fully understand

So right now all we have is stuff like Fetch & IndexedDB. These are high level abstractions. I think we need low level abstractions: e.g. WebUDP, WebBlockDevice.

High level APIs have the downside that they don't map well to the OS, giving up performance. To then implement something like a DB on top of it means you'll only get a fraction of the perf you would writing non-browser code.

A whole range of apps (e.g. real-time video games) simply aren't possible right now. It'd be cool if the platform had the capabilities to achieve it

Would that even be possible without violating all the laws of sandboxing? Who would one ask about this? Would @jaffathecake be a good person to start with?

If WebAssembly was possible, then I'm sure the same can be done for networking & disk access. Probably the hardest part will be agreeing that it's a challenge that needs a solution.

I don't think it's quite the same. We've been able to write to memory for ages on the web, eg assigning a string to a variable. Not sure how you'd expose UDP without breaking security.

If they're still a thing, webrtc data channels were supposed to solve the low-level connection control: https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webrtc/datachannels/ … Not quite raw sockets but could handle a lot of cases.