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Even if it's weird and designed by committee, at least we have agreement with all browsers. IMO, WebAssembly has got over the biggest hurdle: agreement in a for
by enos_feedler 5y ago
Even if it's weird and designed by committee, at least we have agreement with all browsers. IMO, WebAssembly has got over the biggest hurdle: agreement in a format to feed an abstract processor to program it to do math. Nothing more, nothing less. In the web ecosystem, the most powerful thing right now is agreement. The design might be ugly or weird, but it works and it's done. Lets build on top of it.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoFrankly, fuck the web. It's a warzone where Google throws its weight around to enhance the ability of advertisers to make our lives terrible. I was more interested in WASM as a universal VM for all platforms, but it doesn't fit nearly as well for that as it could because of some of the strange decisions this web-focused committee made. At least Java was also designed to run on not-the-web.
- enos_feedler 5y agoYes, I am as well. But anything built on top of wasm to run everywhere should probably at least operate well inside a browser environment. Almost as an incubation environment for something bigger. The browser platform is too big to ignore. We rise up from Chrome, Firefox, Safari etc!!! Here and now!!! We Rise!