Re:The Death of Flash and Rewriting 1.4M Lines of Code
by seangrogg on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @02:43PM
(#15963470)
Shouldn't it be possible to decompile from wasm to the language that was used to compile to it (or any target language that could've produced said wasm)?
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:The Death of Flash and Rewriting 1.4M Lines of Code
by Crespyl on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @02:57PM
(#15963640)
Only to roughly the same degree that it's possible to decompile x86/64 binaries to C or C++.
It depends heavily on the specific optimizations and obfuscations used, whether or not debugging information was left in, etc.
There's a reason the GPL has a "preferred form for editing" clause.
Re:The Death of Flash and Rewriting 1.4M Lines of Code
by manigandham on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @04:34PM
(#15964525)
It's better than that: http://webassembly.org/docs/faq/#will-webassembly-support-vi...
Re:The Death of Flash and Rewriting 1.4M Lines of Code
by qweqweqweqw on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @05:01PM
(#15964795)
Yeah, but is that actually required? I don't know much about this, but I'd guess 90% of websites will strip this just like debug info in most proprietary software, 9% don't know about this or forget to remove it, if it's included by default and 1% consciously decides to ship it for transparency.
Re:The Death of Flash and Rewriting 1.4M Lines of Code
by manigandham on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @05:05PM
(#15964835)
Then it's no different than minimized javascript...