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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 o

by 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 :()