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Re:An Abridged Cartoon Introduction To WebAssembly by throwasehasdwi on Monday May 15, 2017 @04:05PM (#14344666)
It's not the overall objective but that's exactly the objective of a lot of people rooting for it. Think of how many people would be pissed off if they said "we're gonna try to replace javascript". Google did that with Dart and everyone gave them the finger... sunk cost fallacy.

Better to develop something for "performance" that just happens to be able to replace JS as a side benefit. Makes it a lot easier to swallow

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Re:An Abridged Cartoon Introduction To WebAssembly by copperx on Monday May 15, 2017 @11:05PM (#14347086)
So what you're saying is that WASM is a Trojan horse.
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Re:An Abridged Cartoon Introduction To WebAssembly by throwasehasdwi on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @01:15PM (#14351316)
If you disagree with javascript losing dominance I guess you could say so. It's really just a way to make it easy to run whatever language you want in the browser in a cross-platform compatible way. I don't see this as a bad thing at all.
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