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Even Knuth found it worthwhile to give us his opinion on this issue at point,
[a flame about 64-bit pointers](http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/news08.html).

## Will I be able to access proprietary platform APIs (e.g. Android / iOS)?

Yes but it will depend on the _WebAssembly embedder_. Inside a browser you'll
get access to the same HTML5 and other browser-specific APIs which are also
accessible through regular JavaScript. However, if a wasm VM is provided as an
[“app execution platform”](NonWeb.md) by a specific vendor, it might provide
access to [proprietary platform-specific APIs](Portability.md#api) of e.g.
Android / iOS.