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Comment by IshKebab

Because it uses WASI which is basically "POSIX for Webassembly". Check out the API:

https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-libc/blob/main/libc-bott...

Symlinks, hardlinks, errno, etc. It's not surprising that it's better supported on Unix than other platforms.

And yeah I agree it's disappointing they tacked such an obviously platform-biased API on to something that is supposed to be platform independent. I guess it was the pragmatic thing but still...

parent IshKebab 4 years ago

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