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Javascript already does that. If you look at any website nowaday you will find minified JS that is impossible to understand. What's the difference with a binary
by maeln 9y ago
Javascript already does that. If you look at any website nowaday you will find minified JS that is impossible to understand.
What's the difference with a binary format at this point ?
It does not change the fact that those blob are executed in a sandboxed environnement with a permission system.
At least WebAssembly is more efficient and will make it finally possible to use staticly typed langage for web developpment.
- freddex 9y agoA minor point: To be fair, minified JS is not exactly a hard barrier. Conventional minification is just removing extraneous whitespace, newlines, comments, etc.. Except for the lost comments (which are definitely a pity if it's well-commented code), it's easily restored with an unminifier.