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JavaScript and WebAssembly are used like DRM on steroids. I explained myself here a bit more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15982323 https://news.ycombin

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• krapp 9y ago
  I didn't downvote you, but I do disagree. Javascript can be turned off, or modified at will in the browser, and its source is available and viewable. Most Javascript is FOSS licensed, and can be forked, edited and redistributed. Minified libraries usually have plaintext sources accompanying them, meaning they can be studied and validated. WebAssembly, meanwhile is barely being used at all, much less in any way that can be considered 'like DRM on steroids.' I understand a lot of people here don't like Javascript, and dislike WebAssembly even less for being a binary format, yet as languages and their environments go, Javascript makes itself far more amenable to user freedom than others, and WebAssembly still barely even exists.
• Impossible 9y ago
  This isn't an inherent property of Javascript or the web though, and it happens with other languages. Javascript is better than many languages in that although it is often minified, anyone using a browser can view source and look at js code, which isn't the case for non-open source code in languages that compile to binary executables. Mobile platforms and eapecially game consoles have significantly more DRM backed into the platform than the web, and don't use javascript as a primary language for most applications.