Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly

Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by hdhzy on Friday September 22, 2017 @12:14PM (#15313442)

> Essentially, WebAssembly is the new Flash, but it is an open standard, more secure, and language agnostic.

I disagree. Flash could draw things without interacting with DOM thorough JS. Also Flash had sophisticated IDE. WebAssembly is just asm.js+ with a strong aim to compile C/C++ for the web, so you don't need to rewrite anything.

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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by ChrisSD on Friday September 22, 2017 @12:28PM (#15313579)

There are various drawing surfaces on the web that don't involve interacting with the DOM (canvas, webgl, etc).

I'm not sure what you mean about the IDE? Webassembly won't restrict what source language you use so you'll be able to use any IDE that supports your chosen language. And that would include Flash and its tools if someone writes a compiler.

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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by hdhzy on Friday September 22, 2017 @03:10PM (#15314891)

I mean Flash had a dedicated IDE. WebAssembly can be compared to ABC (ActionScript Bytecode) not to Flash.

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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by drdrey on Friday September 22, 2017 @02:23PM (#15314489)

WebAssembly is a compilation target (like JVM Bytecode). You need an IDE for the source language, not the target.

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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by panopticon on Friday September 22, 2017 @03:12PM (#15314907)

That's his/her point; they were trying to point out why Flash and WebAssembly aren't analogous.. Flash was a cohesive toolchain; not a build target.

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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by hdhzy on Friday September 22, 2017 @03:13PM (#15314912)

Exactly. So the patent can compare WebAssembly to ActionScript byte code or swf binary format not to Flash.

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