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For better or worse, we are not far from "bare metal javascript" There is wasmjit [1] a kernel module that enables execution of webassembly via the linux kerne
by entelechy 8y ago
For better or worse, we are not far from "bare metal javascript"
There is wasmjit [1] a kernel module that enables execution of webassembly via the linux kernel.
Furthermore there is AssemblyScript [2] that allows to transpile typed javascript to WebAssembly
[1] https://github.com/rianhunter/wasmjit https://github.com/rianhunter/wasmjit
[2] https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript
- tengbretson 8y agoGood grief we've reached the point of a JS interpreter running in ring 0? Gary Bernhardt was a prophet. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
- warent 8y agoWell, strictly speaking, WASM and JS are two different things, but basically yeah.