Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly

Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by Rusky on Friday September 22, 2017 @05:35PM (#15316052)

Along with the other responses, the JVM imposes its own object model on any language implemented on top of it. WebAssembly does not, so it is vastly simpler and more flexible.

For example, you had to rewrite your apps to run as Java applets. You do not have to rewrite things to run on WebAssembly- all the existing C, C++, etc. code is compatible, up to the platform API.

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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by dikaiosune on Friday September 22, 2017 @07:15PM (#15316794)

This is of course assuming that the WASM GC proposal doesn't require a specific object model to get host GC interop.

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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by Rusky on Saturday September 23, 2017 @01:28AM (#15318308)

So far it doesn't look like it will: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/O...

But either way, I'd still take "use this object model for host GC interop" over "use this object model or leave the platform."

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