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Have you seen the "the birth and death of javascript"? More interestingly it could vastly reduce the cost of interprocess communication to the point where the i
by traverseda 9y ago
Have you seen the "the birth and death of javascript"? More interestingly it could vastly reduce the cost of interprocess communication to the point where the idea of a process starts to look a bit weird.
Want to query a database? Upload a function you wrote yourself for complicated queries like GIS, or let the SQL parser generate the raw wasm on your behalf.
Want to authenticate your users, but don't want to deal with all the different permiations on hardare tokens, ssh keys, etc? Just let them upload a wasm function.
- willvarfar 9y agocough java was supposed to do all that, right?
- etatoby 9y agoYes, this is my feeling too: Java all over again
- traverseda 9y agoIt seems like a lot of people were simply unwilling to support java. Bundling the execution enviroment with such an un-fun language was probably a mistake. Not to mention the patents and oracle in general. It was before my time, but I don't imagine the open source community was ever going to really embace it.