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And a key point: "Our founding members are Mozilla, Fastly, Intel, and Red Hat" Where are Google, Microsoft and the other big names you would expect?
by pasttense01 7y ago
And a key point: "Our founding members are Mozilla, Fastly, Intel, and Red Hat"
Where are Google, Microsoft and the other big names you would expect?
- cpeterso 7y agoGoogle and Microsoft probably don't have much use for WebAssembly outside the browser, whereas companies like Fastly and Cloudflare run customers' untrusted WebAssembly on their edge server networks.
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- JoshTriplett 7y agoWe launched the Alliance to formalize collaboration on pre-existing projects we were all already collaborating on. We'd love to collaborate with others as well, and we're having a lot of additional conversations at the moment.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoI'm sure they'll join sooner or later. Don't forget Apple.
- big_chungus 7y ago> Where are Google, Microsoft and the other big names you would expect? Those folks are the incumbents. What do they have to gain from joining? Google especially has developed a colossal amount of tooling in-house that gives it an edge over others; new tech may make the lives of competition easier. Ditto to an extent for MS, though there, I suspect it's more bureaucracy and not seeing anything to gain.
- pjmlp 7y agoAfter all MSIL already supported multiple languages, including C++, back in 2001.
- kevingadd 7y agoOther than on the committee that designed WebAssembly, you mean?