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Re:WebAssembly First Public Working Drafts by hackcasual on Thursday February 15, 2018 @07:33PM (#16389016)
The alternative is that it's a bloated piece of tech that ends up the way of Flash/Applets.
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Re:WebAssembly First Public Working Drafts by thefounder on Friday February 16, 2018 @04:36AM (#16391089)
I believe flash and java applets were something else than WASM.
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Re:WebAssembly First Public Working Drafts by hackcasual on Friday February 16, 2018 @11:59AM (#16393709)
Right, they were their own separate VMs, with a lot of duplicated functionality. WASM is just a way to get native, non memory managed languages executing efficiently in a JavaScript environment.
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Re:WebAssembly First Public Working Drafts by username223 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @08:19PM (#16389211)
I.e. disabled and eventually removed? I could live with that.
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