WebAssembly: a binary format for the web

Re:WebAssembly: a binary format for the web by niccaluim on Sunday November 01, 2015 @07:43PM (#10489258)

I was very much there, and I'd sooner eat my cat than go back to that era of Java. But C++? Is that really the best we can do? Everyone's so afraid of breaking backwards compatibility but I don't see any other way out of the never-ending accretion of hacks Eich left us with.

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Re:WebAssembly: a binary format for the web by jacobolus on Sunday November 01, 2015 @08:03PM (#10489312)

Not C++ per se, but anything that can compile to WebAssembly, which should right away include anything with an LLVM toolchain, and should down the line include any compiled language for which someone puts the work in to add WebAssembly as a compile target.

I’m also hoping it winds up being friendly enough to hand write WebAssembly for small chunks of numerical code. With asm.js, that’s currently kind of a pain.

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Re:WebAssembly: a binary format for the web by dikaiosune on Sunday November 01, 2015 @10:35PM (#10489841)

Rust in the browser?

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