Re:Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler
by krapp on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @06:31PM
(#16173090)
I realize this is likely to be the most likely way native WASM apps are implemented because it's the most obvious to web developers, but I also think it's the wrong approach.
Webassembly.org's own docs mention that it's intended to be agnostic about its runtime environment[0]. Electron is for packaging HTML, CSS and JS into a "native" application, but WASM doesn't actually need that if it's running outside the web.
Why not a native runtime on top of a cross-platform library like SDL? Just because it's "Web Assembly" doesn't mean it has to be limited to webdev paradigms.
Webassembly.org's own docs mention that it's intended to be agnostic about its runtime environment[0]. Electron is for packaging HTML, CSS and JS into a "native" application, but WASM doesn't actually need that if it's running outside the web.
Why not a native runtime on top of a cross-platform library like SDL? Just because it's "Web Assembly" doesn't mean it has to be limited to webdev paradigms.
[0]http://webassembly.org/docs/non-web/