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When you say Inferno led to WASM, is it just conceptual or is there a concrete link?
by regentbowerbird 3y ago
When you say Inferno led to WASM, is it just conceptual or is there a concrete link?
- lproven 3y agoIt's not even conceptual. It's an entirely separate, kludgy and vastly inelegant, reinvention of a concept that had already been done much better. First in Tao Group's Taos, later much refined and improved in Elate and Intent. Then done in a more Unixy way in Inferno. Inferno embeds the cross-platform runtime VM right into the kernel and makes it the default. WASM bodges a cross-platform runtime VM together out of chunks of web browser and Javascript tech, and then others rip it out of the browser and make it run standalone.
- garaetjjte 3y agoThere is basically none Javascript tech in WASM.
- lproven 3y agoAs I understand it, and I could be wrong, the origins of the project lay in trying to target the output from a compiler to a bytecode like intermediate language that the JavaScript runtime could execute. I am more than happy to believe that no trace of that is left now, but I think that is more or less how it got started.
- nine_k 3y agoInferno did not "lead" to WASM. Palm Pilot did not "lead" to iPhone. Instead I'm trying to show the same general idea tried over and over, at different times and from different angles. The arrows just show the sequence in time.