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"Its development is backed by people at Mozilla, Microsoft, Google and Apple." It seems this is for real then? JS has had a surprisingly long life actually gi
by charlysl 9y ago
"Its development is backed by people at Mozilla, Microsoft, Google and Apple."
It seems this is for real then?
JS has had a surprisingly long life actually given its original use cases, and I understand the objections to wasm, but I guess that something like this was inevitable given how big the browser is as a platform and how web apps have been steadily fattening on the back of a suboptimal language, which, if this goes ahead, can be confined to just UI again.
They are planning to add support for gc, threads, bigger mem, tail recursion, etc [1], so will it be running everything efficiently? Even on mobile, given its backers?
Wow
[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeatures.md https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeat...
- steveklabnik 9y agoIt's probable you can already use it on mobile today. I have. https://caniuse.com/#feat=wasm https://caniuse.com/#feat=wasm