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How is this different from what Java was a few years back?
by faissaloo 8y ago
How is this different from what Java was a few years back?
- Felz 8y agoYou can compile Rust/C/etc executables to it, the stdlib might be different or nonexistant (unclear to me), WASM doesn't have a GC (yet) and you can get stacklike semantics, probably fewer security holes, the installer probably doesn't bundle other softfare. But yes, technically speaking it's not that much different from JVM bytecode execution. Software is more consensus than breakthroughs though, so WASM might succeed where Java failed (well, kind of) because we're ready for it and the major players want it.