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When will we reach a point when articles and talks no longer start with "let me explain to you what webassembly is". After all, you don't see the same introduct
by azangru 4y ago
When will we reach a point when articles and talks no longer start with "let me explain to you what webassembly is". After all, you don't see the same introductions in articles about javascript, or python, or even rust. When seeing an article starting with such introduction - after hundreds of other articles did the same - I never know how deep to expect it to go, and whether to continue reading.
- ridruejo 4y agoI completely understand and we debated it a lot when writing the article. At the end, given that the audience was existing Docker users, we erred on the side of adding that introduction. In other, more technical articles we just dive right in: https://wasmlabs.dev/articles/php-dev-server-on-wasm/ https://wasmlabs.dev/articles/php-dev-server-on-wasm/
- kenjackson 4y agoI thought the intro was good and important. I’d read about web assembly before, but I learned new stuff in the intro.
- bityard 4y agoI thought it was pretty useful and I got quite a bit out of it. Most articles of this type gloss over why Wasm is even interesting, leaving me to wonder if Wasm is equivalent to Java Web Applets, or go jump right into implementation details of some subset of the project without any context. I often see a lot of technical articles posted to HN that are probably very interesting, but they assume the reader is living in the author's head and jump right into the details with little to no context.