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I think your claim is right, but be wary about spec page counts. They blow out with age. As time goes on, more pages are devoted to nailing down corner-cases,
by adrianratnapala 9y ago
I think your claim is right, but be wary about spec page counts. They blow out with age.
As time goes on, more pages are devoted to nailing down corner-cases, and retroactively legislating either for or against assumptions had previously been common sense until someone in the real world violated them.
WASM will see such growth in time. Think of how simple HTML was once upon a time.
- derefr 9y agoHTML got complicated because they modified the assumptions whenever they were violated, to make the violation into a working case. Specs grow much more slowly if, in response to such non-conforming implementations of a processing stage, they just codify the common sense, and maybe give methods for detecting the non-conforming outputs and rejecting them. XHTML is not a large spec.
- adrianratnapala 9y agoVery true. But HTML is not unique in this regard, other standards have done this too. I picked on HTML because it is also a foundational web technology. Many of its standards setters are the same people who will influence WASM, and many of the same incentives will be at play with WASM as with HTML.