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Re:Web Assembly Working Group Charter Approved by baybal2 on Saturday August 05, 2017 @03:53AM (#14934671)
There is a major negative effect - you will be running obscure blobs of code - you can't think of anything worse for security.

Sandboxing as such will not help you to any degree with that. People promoting sanboxing as a universal solution have poor knowledge of computer security

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Re:Web Assembly Working Group Charter Approved by TomMarius on Saturday August 05, 2017 @08:44AM (#14935433)
I don't know a complex web app that doesn't minify and/or obfuscate its source code.
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Re:Web Assembly Working Group Charter Approved by baybal2 on Saturday August 05, 2017 @03:08PM (#14937328)
You do not see a difference in between two?
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Re:Web Assembly Working Group Charter Approved by TomMarius on Saturday August 05, 2017 @03:18PM (#14937386)
No, not at all (practically). Either way I need a source map and/or a decompiler to read the code.
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Re:Web Assembly Working Group Charter Approved by baybal2 on Saturday August 05, 2017 @03:46PM (#14937522)
The parsed VM bytecode and calls to native code by the interpreter are two quite different things
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