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Re:What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit by pjmlp on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @06:47AM (#16105401)
TeaVM allows any Java application to be ported into WebAssembly, be it an applet or not.

As3-WebAssembly is a compiler for porting Action Script 3, Flash's programming language, into WebAssembly. Already integrated into Flash Develop.

Microsoft and Xamarin efforts to port Mono into WebAssembly, will allow making Silverlight apps again.

You are free to believe this won't turn out into anything, I rather think we will end up in WebAssembly + Canvas/WebGL in a couple of years.

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Re:What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit by EgoIncarnate on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @01:21PM (#16108386)
As I said, we are talking about different things. I am talking about running binary executables from old platforms and people making new binaries in the old way again, you seem to be talking about porting old source code to new platforms.

The new platforms may use the old languages, but the runtime libraries are not the same. The new platforms have different APIs and functionalities (no threads in TeaVM for instance).

To simplify my point. ActionScript is just a language. Adobe Flash was much more than that. Maybe companies really will find some compelling reason to start using ActionScript again... but Adobe Flash and it's SWFs will still be dead.

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