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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by jandrese on Friday September 22, 2017 @04:17PM (#15315417)
A big reason Java failed was that it was painfully slow. Starting the VM and importing everything took tens of seconds on old machines, and still takes a couple of seconds on new ones.

Then people started worrying about security and all of the Java applets broke because nobody wants to go through that code signing process.

I have to admit I don't know much about the security model of WebAssembly, but I wonder if it will become as annoying as Java in the future.

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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by AgentME on Friday September 22, 2017 @04:49PM (#15315668)
>I have to admit I don't know much about the security model of WebAssembly, but I wonder if it will become as annoying as Java in the future.

WebAssembly in browsers executes similarly to javascript in the same sandbox with the same platform APIs with the same kind of delivery methods, so I don't think we have that to worry about.

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