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Tell me how you'd do "native C/C++ FFI (to like a .so or .dylib or .dll)" between the webview using WASM or anything other than "WebKit's built in JSON-string based IPC"

Like a <button> that triggers a DLL call. How would you achieve it with WASM? How does WASM act as the bridge to the DOM and/or native? It doesn't, right?

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Most of the optimizations apply equally to calling into webview JS from a native application for something like dom manipulation. There is a wry example that uses the system webview in the repo: https://github.com/ealmloff/sledgehammer_bindgen/blob/master...

https://github.com/ealmloff/sledgehammer_bindgen/blob/master...

This is fetch(), which I have to imagine is much less performant than Electron with a require('native-module')

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