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WebAssembly is unlikely to have this issue because it has to run on the web and browsers don't want to break backwards compatibility. Even with these issues the

by jules 9y ago

WebAssembly is unlikely to have this issue because it has to run on the web and browsers don't want to break backwards compatibility. Even with these issues the JVM has actually been quite successful as a language platform.

kbutler 9y ago
The edge cases they cited seem to run counter to this expectation: "At this point, we want to issue a special thank you to the WebAssembly teams at Mozilla and Google, especially Alon Zakai, for being so helpful. We did run into a few edge cases but with their help we were able to still make it happen and even improved the Emscripten tool chain a bit along the way." If some percentage of realistic projects run into edge cases that are incompatible with either the spec or between browsers, it violates the whole "write once run anywhere" goal.
- jules 9y ago
  WebAssembly is in its infancy.
  - kbutler 9y ago
    > WebAssembly is in its infancy Exactly. Expectations that WebAssembly will be more cross-platform than any previous attempt at cross-platform are probably overly optimistic at this point. Though I'm hopeful, as well.