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Is it just me, or does "WebAssembly" seem like an oxymoron? Maybe it's because I've been involved with the web since its earliest beginnings.
by mdswanson 3y ago
Is it just me, or does "WebAssembly" seem like an oxymoron? Maybe it's because I've been involved with the web since its earliest beginnings.
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- teddyh 3y agoYou might like this bit of speculative history: <https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...>
- mdswanson 3y agoThanks! That was fun. I hadn't seen it. There's the problem of bootstrapping METAL, but perhaps left for a different lecture! ;-)
- patmorgan23 3y agoI mean technically it's browser VM bytecode by it's semantics.