WebAssembly namespace only found in lib.dom.d.ts and not available for NodeJS

[tomaka]

lib Update Request

Hi 👋

lib.dom.d.ts contains a namespace named WebAssembly in accordance with https://webassembly.github.io/spec/js-api/

However, correct me if I'm wrong, but WebAssembly is not a web-specific technology but a "core" JavaScript API.
NodeJS for example also supports creating/running WebAssembly instances.
And on the MDN, it is classified as a "global object", and not something specific to the web: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects#webassembly

As a consequence, it is not currently possible to use WebAssembly from JavaScript without importing the dom library.
An example of that is that the @types/node/wasi.d.ts file contains dummy return values for its functions:

https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/blob/8745cf9f8425bfcabaed69fba1684082a18f3191/types/node/wasi.d.ts#L136

Configuration Check

This issue applies to situations where lib does not contains dom.

Missing / Incorrect Definition

The missing definition is the WebAssembly object/namespace and everything below.

WebAssembly shouldn't be present in the dom library but, if I'm not mistaken, as a language feature.

Sample Code

Any code that uses WebAssembly doesn't work, for example:

await WebAssembly.instantiate(wasmBytecode, {});

Documentation Link

https://www.w3.org/TR/wasm-js-api-1/
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects#webassembly

[IllusionMH]

WASM isn't part of ECMAScript spec and it's just browsers/runtime providing JS API.
Similar to console which is not part of ES spec, but it's may be non-trivial to find runtime that doesn't have it.

UPD. Basically duplicate of microsoft/TypeScript-DOM-lib-generator#826

[typescript-bot]

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[tomaka]

A duplicate of which issue? Is there an issue I can follow to know whether there is a work-around and/or when this is fixed?

[IllusionMH]

UPD. Basically duplicate of microsoft/TypeScript-DOM-lib-generator#826