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This is a 35-year-old multi-million-line codebase working in a browser. Yup. I don't know what to say - I'm impressed by the amount of effort not spent on othe
by crististm 8y ago
This is a 35-year-old multi-million-line codebase working in a browser.
Yup. I don't know what to say - I'm impressed by the amount of effort not spent on other things (for your infinite pick of other things).
The future will tell but in the meantime I don't see the problem that was solved by this fix (except for the problem of not running the app in Chrome).
- sirjaz 8y agoThe WASM group spec just added this in the official 1.0 spec. Non-web: https://webassembly.org/docs/non-web/ https://webassembly.org/docs/non-web/ So this is how you get around cross-platform issues.
- pjmlp 8y agoBytecode as portable binary files go back to the first mainframe generations during the 60's and is still in use by IBM and Unisys systems. Being partially copied by the same companies that are involved on WebAssembly for their own OSes (MSIL/MDIL, DEX, LLVM bitcode). So nothing really new there for getting around cross-platform issues.