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Exactly. WASM stories always bring up wild fantasies of platform world domination, when in reality there aren't APIs for even the most basic things, let alone p
by tannhaeuser 9y ago
Exactly. WASM stories always bring up wild fantasies of platform world domination, when in reality there aren't APIs for even the most basic things, let alone practical apps.
In a heretical way, I've got to ask why not just use JVM byte codes, an incomparably more established platform at this point with several mature VMs and sophisticated API ecosystem, albeit not necessarily in the graphics space? Why did we want to rid browsers of Java in the first place just to start all over with it?
- Rusky 9y agoJava doesn't provide a sufficient security model for running arbitrary C/C++-like code, which is the entire purpose of WebAssembly. Drop that and all the new use cases will just go back to asm.js instead.
- pjmlp 9y agoSure it does, https://github.com/graalvm/sulong https://github.com/graalvm/sulong http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3132204 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3132204
- Rusky 9y agoThat's... not Java or the JVM providing the security model. It's impressive but it's not a comparable solution to WebAssembly.