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> missing GC and a standard library. Many of us consider these points to be features. We don't want a runtime that's as complicated as CLR or JVM bytecode.
by danShumway 6y ago
> missing GC and a standard library.
Many of us consider these points to be features. We don't want a runtime that's as complicated as CLR or JVM bytecode.
- throwaway189262 6y agoAny popular VM inevitably becomes as complex as those. Look at V8, it's grown into a JVM sized beast. It would save countless hours of human effort to just adapt what's out there. It will be a decade before WASM has the kind of support JVM and CLR do. By then it will have the same huge codebase that causes vulnerabilities