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WASM is a compilation target. Think of it as a little machine in the browser you're writing code for. While you technically could write direct WASM code, the id
by bitsoda 8y ago
WASM is a compilation target. Think of it as a little machine in the browser you're writing code for. While you technically could write direct WASM code, the idea here is to have other languages compile to it, which you could then debug as normal.
Outside of needing some extreme performance optimization, most web developers should never need to read or write WASM code.
- rounce 8y ago> WASM is a compilation target. Like the VM in the Flash runtime that runs ActionScript bytecode. Part of the GP's point still stands regarding MagicBlob™s. That said, it does differ (massively) in that it doesn't cast the spell of being a closed proprietary format: primarily driven by motivations of it's owner rather than the benefit of it's community.