Re:WebAssembly First Public Working Drafts
by thefounder on Friday February 16, 2018 @04:36AM
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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
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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.