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The web is different than other platforms, though. It has a culture of people viewing source and tinkering. Minification etc. limit that, but do not eliminate
by azakai 10y ago
The web is different than other platforms, though.
It has a culture of people viewing source and tinkering. Minification etc. limit that, but do not eliminate it.
And the web is a medium for transmitting and running other people's code on your machine in a safe way, and that includes not just sandboxing but also being able to inspect it.
It's important that the wasm text format be as readable as possible, to continue these traditions, even if wasm is a compiler target.
- Narishma 10y agoThe equivalent of WebAssembly isn't minified JS, it's the JS output of compilers like emscripten. Is that really readable by the average JS developer?