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>People have a misconception about WebAssembly. They think that the WebAssembly that landed in browsers back in 2017—which we called the minimum viable product
by upofadown 8y ago
>People have a misconception about WebAssembly. They think that the WebAssembly that landed in browsers back in 2017—which we called the minimum viable product (or MVP) of WebAssembly—is the final version of WebAssembly.
They do? When people point out that WASM can't do stuff they are simply pointing out that WASM would need to be extended. That is a pretty simple concept and a very important observation because historically that is the phase where everything falls apart.
Creating an intermediate language that all the higher level languages can compile to is not a new idea. It has been done over and over again with little practical result. Some current scepticism is in order.