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The fact that it's the only standard way to run on the web without Javascript means that every language and its dog will have a WebAssembly backend. I wonder i
by wtetzner 8y ago
The fact that it's the only standard way to run on the web without Javascript means that every language and its dog will have a WebAssembly backend.
I wonder if the real difference between WebAssembly and the other bytecodes you mentioned is just the number languages that will end up targeting it.
Though, one advantage over LLVM is that it's simpler.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoHas WASM bridges the DOM problem with a nice solution yet? If not, it isn’t even a way to run on the web yet.
- mox1 8y agoThe article goes into this, but I suppose the short answer is today - No. There are various future proposals that will tackle this (enumerated in article).
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoYes, we are looking forward to that. But ATM WASM isn’t really not yet a gateway to the web. A lot of whether it makes sense for a language to target WASM or not will depend on how this question is ultimately answered (though I personally would be happy with just canvas access, most people want DOM).
- pjmlp 8y agoMicrosoft had a plethora of languages targeting MSIL when .NET was released.