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The direct inspiration of WebAssembly was asm.js, which is what the talk is about. A future where everything targets asm.js and vendors don't take the next step

The direct inspiration of WebAssembly was asm.js, which is what the talk is about. A future where everything targets asm.js and vendors don't take the next step and create wasm. The talk has predicts a lot of what is happening around wasm.

pjmlp 4y ago
Only because Mozilla refused to adopt PNaCL. The irony is that with its 3% market share, if it was today on the age of Chrome OS based Web, Google would have been able to push it no matter what.
- conaclos 4y ago
  Why PNaCL could be better than WASM?
  - mgaunard 4y ago
    PNaCL is native.
    - dmytrish 4y ago
      You're confusing PNaCL (based on LLVM bitcode) with NaCL.
  - pjmlp 4y ago
    Was there first instead of delaying progress for a decade and still not moving beyond MVP 1.0 as baseline.
- photonbeam 4y ago
  What was the rationale for opposition?
  - 5e92cb50239222b 4y ago
    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729481#c83 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729481#c83 https://www.theregister.com/2010/06/24/jay_sullivan_on_firefox/ https://www.theregister.com/2010/06/24/jay_sullivan_on_firef...
    - photonbeam 4y ago
      Thanks, that seems reasonable
    - marcosdumay 4y ago
      Looks like Google learned EEE from Micrsosft quite well.
      - pjmlp 4y ago
        Chrome OS is what IE wanted to become.