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WASM is designed to be embedded and its model is that of native code rather than any particular high-level language's primitives. It is closer to LLVM than Java
by pie_flavor 2y ago
WASM is designed to be embedded and its model is that of native code rather than any particular high-level language's primitives. It is closer to LLVM than Java. Comparisons to Java are surface-level and boring, since all foundational reasons why Java failed are false of WASM.
- pjmlp 2y agoInterestingly enough, people keep forgetting that since UNCOL in 1958 there were many polyglot bytecode based runtimes, because comparing to Java is always easier argument.
- pie_flavor 2y agoYou're the one who brought it up. Make a good point or don't.