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We spent a long time wishing for a VM for the web that could be targetted by any language and being told that wasn't possible. WebAssembly will finally deliver
by pedrocr 9y ago
We spent a long time wishing for a VM for the web that could be targetted by any language and being told that wasn't possible. WebAssembly will finally deliver that and it seems to be done by the same people/organizations. What changed?
- jfbastien 9y agoSame organizations, different people, and enough time to experiment with (read: suffer pains from) things like asm.js and PNaCl for those people to agree that something like WebAssembly was a good idea.
- fasquoika 9y ago>We spent a long time wishing for a VM for the web that could be targetted by any language and being told that wasn't possible. Technologically speaking, this has been possible since the days of p-code. The browser vendors have only just decided that it's something that's actually beneficial
- always_good 9y agoIt's also been possible since Javascript.
- gwbas1c 9y agoIt's called the CLR. (Common language runtime, which is what C# runs on.) The problem is that the CLR forces you into a "one-size-fits-all" garbage collector. It's good for what it does, but if your application needs are different, than the CLR just won't work.
- pedrocr 9y agoThere are plenty of VMs out there, the JVM and CLR being the biggest two. Up to now though none were usable on the web.