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>> "IMHO that would be a catastrophic regression in the software space, easily a black swan event, if you say needed to compile software differently between maj
by Kye 7y ago
>> "IMHO that would be a catastrophic regression in the software space, easily a black swan event, if you say needed to compile software differently between major cloud vendors just to deploy."
Wasm blobs seem poised to moot this in the next 10 years. So many things on the desktop have already moved to the web or Electron. Server-side applications turning into browser-executed blobs backed by one of a few database systems still on the server is the next logical step.
- DeathArrow 7y agoI've heard it 10 years ago. Together with: "in 10 years we won't need desktops, only dumb clients as most software will run from the cloud"
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- higerordermap 7y agoI am tired of wasm hype. Can someone explain what it does so well than existing cross platform solutions like CLR / JVM? It doesn't yet have a GC nor is most efficient for that matter. And JIT is not efficient in terms of memory and power compared to native code.
- swiley 7y agoBoth of those are owned by organizations that have behaved pathologically in the past so I think many people reflexively avoid them. Wasm is supposedly language agnostic (although I’d disagree heh) whereas even CLR imposes a lot on the language you build for it.