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China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] eldebryn@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

A bunch of desktop apps use electron anyways as a runtime. WASM could allow us to have better/more reliable software that doesn't rely on JS, which isn't ideal for many use cases.

Is it efficient? Definitely not, but for system apps we have other choices which are more performant like C and Rust. These days 90% of the software people use are either web apps in a browser or web apps with an electron gui running outside their browser but inside the Electron browser: P.