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The coolness of WASM is that I can run WASM on like 99.999% of the targets I care to run code on with zero friction. Everyone (well it's HN so someone is probab
by thot_experiment 2y ago
The coolness of WASM is that I can run WASM on like 99.999% of the targets I care to run code on with zero friction. Everyone (well it's HN so someone is probably on LYNX) reading this page is doing so in a browser with a WASM runtime. That has tremendous value.
- pjmlp 2y agoApplies to most bytecode formats, it is a matter of implementation.
- marcosdumay 2y agoIt never applied to any web bytecode formats, and applies to very few local local ones (arguably, none). It's just a matter of having everybody agree to install the same interpreter, yes. That never happened before.
- pjmlp 2y agoAnother example of lack of computing history. Never happened before, really?!? What examples since 1958 would make you happy? Burroughs, Corvus Systems, IBM, Apple, Unisys, MSR, embedded,.... Probably none of them, I bet.
- thot_experiment 2y agoYou're missing the forest for the trees. You already have the bytecode interpreter in front of you and so does everyone else. You are already running it, the difference between "it's definitely already running" and "you could trivially make this work if you put a bit of effort in" is enormous.
- marcosdumay 2y agoNever happened before. And your list has no example of anything that was universally installed on everybody's system. The closest is IBM (if you mean x86 opcodes), but code for that one needed to be specialized by OS before it became ubiquitous, and got competitors before its main OS became ubiquitous, and then became ubiquitous again but with 2 main OSes, and then got competitors again.
- anthk 2y agoNot Lynx as it doesn't show up the correct layout on comments. But Dillo works perfectly fine. No JS, no WASM, crazy fast on a n270 netbook. I can't barely run WASM programs that could be run fine under a Pentium 3-4.