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> This is why having a compilation target that works the same way everywhere would be so valuable. We're some ways away from this, but I think WebAssembly offer

> This is why having a compilation target that works the same way everywhere would be so valuable. We're some ways away from this, but I think WebAssembly offers hope here. Why does WebAssembly offer more hope than the JVM, or interpreted languages that we already have? It will still have to interop with native libraries to get work done.

titzer 8y ago
It's lower level than the JVM and more of an abstraction over hardware. So native libraries can be compiled directly into it, so everything can interop on top of Wasm.
- rat9988 8y ago
  >>more of an abstraction over hardware Same can be said for jvm.
  - titzer 8y ago
    The jvm is explicitly designed to run the Java language. It has Java's type system baked into the bytecode. It is not an abstraction over hardware. (it doesn't even have unsigned comparisons :()