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Actually the great secret of wasm (that will piss off a lot of people on HN I am sure) is that it is deterministic and can be used to build decentralized smart
by EGreg 9mo ago
Actually the great secret of wasm (that will piss off a lot of people on HN I am sure) is that it is deterministic and can be used to build decentralized smart contracts and Byzantine Fault Tolerant distributed systems :)
Some joker who built Solana actually thought Berkeley Packet Filter language would be better than WASM for their runtime. But besides that dude, everyone is discovering how great WASM can be to run deterministic code right in people’s browsers!
- torginus 9mo agoI don't think you need WASM for that, I'm sure you can write a language that transpiles to JS and is still deterministic.
- circuit10 9mo agoBut WASM already exists and has many languages that are able to compile to it, why reinvent the wheel?
- undeveloper 9mo agoJS isn't deterministic in its performance
- EGreg 9mo agoThey tried their best: https://deterministic.js.org/ https://deterministic.js.org/ No, WASM is deterministic, JS is fundamentally not. Your dislike of all things blockchain makes you say silly things.