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Things are definitely picking up speed! There are already a bunch of awesome community implementations of the MVP WebAssembly spec [0][1][2]. Meanwhile, the V
by s3th 11y ago
Things are definitely picking up speed!
There are already a bunch of awesome community implementations of the MVP WebAssembly spec [0][1][2]. Meanwhile, the V8 [3], SpiderMonkey [4], Chakra [5], and JSC [6] teams have all started work on implementing wasm in actual browser engines.
We've still got a long ways to go, but it's much nearer than 10+ years!
[0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasm-jit-prototype https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasm-jit-prototype
[1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasmint https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasmint
[2]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasm-aot-prototype https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasm-aot-prototype
[3]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/v8-native-prototype https://github.com/WebAssembly/v8-native-prototype
[4]: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/ca086f9ef8bc/js/src/asmjs/AsmJSValidate.cpp#l2510 http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/ca086f9ef8bc/js/s...
[5]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mikeholman/archive/2015/06/17/working-on-the-future-of-compile-to-web-applications.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mikeholman/archive/2015/06/17/workin...
[6]: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146064 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146064
(Disclaimer: I'm a Google Chrome PM contributing to the WebAssembly project)
- biggestbob 11y agoVery good news! It is exciting. I am looking forward to this.
- ilaksh 11y agoWhat about Servo?
- jmhain 11y agoServo uses SpiderMonkey.
- purplerabbit 11y agoVery happy to hear this! I greatly appreciate an update from the inside