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That's an interesting thought. I didn't mean to suggest anyone code in WASM, but I think I see what you mean. I have experience embedding lua applications with

That's an interesting thought. I didn't mean to suggest anyone code in WASM, but I think I see what you mean. I have experience embedding lua applications within mobile apps, and it required a fair deal of wiring in C to marshal between java and lua (android) or swift and lua (ios). To do the same in WASM sounds rather undesirable. Edit: to finish my thought, I dont see the problem with using a compiler toolchain to create web applications. Can you elaborate on why that isn't a good thing?

krapp 8y ago
>Can you elaborate on why that isn't a good thing? It's not a bad thing per se, but it's added complexity without any obvious benefit if that code is still doing what javascript already does, just as a binary blob, especially for simple uses like glue code around jQuery or the sort of JS running on Hacker News.
steveklabnik 8y ago
> To do the same in WASM sounds rather undesirable. This can be automated though; it's what we've been working on in Rust, and the approach is fundamentally language-agnostic.