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> The whole point of WebAssembly was to find some way to get away from JavaScript The goal is to "Define a portable, size- and load-time-efficient binary forma
by konaraddio 8y ago
> The whole point of WebAssembly was to find some way to get away from JavaScript
The goal is to "Define a portable, size- and load-time-efficient binary format to serve as a compilation target which can be compiled to execute at native speed by taking advantage of common hardware capabilities...."[0].
[0] https://webassembly.org/docs/high-level-goals/ https://webassembly.org/docs/high-level-goals/
- ramses0 8y agoWASM is then the new JVM. Birth and Death of Javascript indeed.
- thrower123 8y agoEverything old is new again, and the Wheel of Time turns, and ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legends fade to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the third age by some, an Age yet to come, an age long past, a virtual machine specification was created in an attempt to achieve the goal of write-once, run everywhere code. The specification was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings or endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.
- pjmlp 8y agoJust like CPUs. In the beginning Assembly became bytecode and CPUs included interpreters via microcode, then everything was supposed to be executed directly by hardware gates, now Assembly has become another form of bytecode and all major CPUs have reverted back to microcode. Same applies to GPUs. Everything old is new again, indeed.
- kowdermeister 8y agoThanks for bringing some poetry to tech land :)
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