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Putting an experimental systems interface in an immutable blockchain seems like a bad idea. Why not just use linux x86 or Emscripten asm.js or even JVM? That wo
by matthewbauer 7y ago
Putting an experimental systems interface in an immutable blockchain seems like a bad idea. Why not just use linux x86 or Emscripten asm.js or even JVM? That wouldn’t get you as many HN hype points I guess.
- fb03 7y agoI am still failing to find the reason why they are trying to put 'blockchain' together with everything else these days. It is exquisite for ledger/proof-of-work systems, but not much else. Sounds like they're randomly taking guesses at what fits well with what, and the building upon.
- pdpi 7y agoI don't know much about _this_ particular project, but "wasm + blockchain" is not that silly an idea. The ethereum crowd is dead set on making the "Web 3.0" thing take off, and getting smart contracts to evolve into full-fledged distributed applications (dapps in the lingo). In that context, the ewasm project is a pretty damn serious attempt at leveraging the wasm specification as a better VM for dapps than what the current EVM provides.
- acdha 7y agoIt’s a better VM, sure, but the core problems are conceptual: there’s no way to fix bugs and programs still have to rely on outside sources for triggers. All a blockchain adds is the ability to get VC funding to expensively reinvent the trusted third party but with less efficiency.