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This is an opportunity to learn. The way WebAssembly is defined is the standard way PL semantics are defined.
by amw-zero 2y ago
This is an opportunity to learn. The way WebAssembly is defined is the standard way PL semantics are defined.
- veltas 2y agoWebAssembly isn't a programming language, it's an ISA or a bytecode VM. They've defined it in a very over-engineered way, with different representations all the way through. It has created issues for people working on assemblers and code generation because it's hard to choose a good representation for compilers to generate. This all could have been avoided.
- amw-zero 2y agoThose are all programming languages.