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Yes the concept, as well as implementations, existed for decades. I think WASM is hype because it comes from the Web/JS community and they have good communicati
by tasogare 7y ago
Yes the concept, as well as implementations, existed for decades. I think WASM is hype because it comes from the Web/JS community and they have good communication, but technically there is nothing new under the sun.
- afiori 7y agoI would say that being a success instead of a failure is something new. The JVM was successful but not for plugins, nor for embedded safety. Also the fact that many vendors have reached a consensus on both a MVP and an update process to future features looks like a win. If Sun, Microsoft, Apple, and Google had all been on board with the (supposedly free software) JVM the story would have been very different.
- pjmlp 7y agoIronically WebAssembly advocacy keeps being defensive against JVM, while cleverly forgetting the dozens of other formats that also offered similar capabilities, including executing C derived languages.