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Where did you get that idea? It's not a design goal of WebAssembly: https://webassembly.org/ https://webassembly.org/ WebAssembly's goal is to provide a simple
by bgirard 8y ago
Where did you get that idea? It's not a design goal of WebAssembly: https://webassembly.org/ https://webassembly.org/
WebAssembly's goal is to provide a simple VM with performance good enough for the web to compete with native programs and to unlock use cases that are not possible to run efficiently in JavaScript.
The syntax that the developer see is totally irrelevant here.
- knocte 8y agoHe not only mentioned syntax but design too. Clearly JavaScript's lack of int (for example, to mention a design decision of JS) is one of the reasons of its poor performance, not to mention its weak typing approach.