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Re:Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plug... by krapp on Friday February 23, 2018 @07:39PM (#16450884)
> something like Mozilla's Servo technology in something like Electron combined with WebAssembly (...)

That still seems too heavy to me. Surely a native runtime for WebAssembly doesn't necessarily require Node and Chromium and all of Electron's bloat?

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Re:Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plug... by 13years on Friday February 23, 2018 @07:45PM (#16450901)
Well, I was speaking conceptually when I said 'something like'. There are parts of the evolving web platform that are very capable of delivering very high performance rivaling native.
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Re:Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plug... by krapp on Friday February 23, 2018 @08:41PM (#16451121)
But does WebAssembly need the "web platform" outside of the web?
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Re:Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plug... by 13years on Friday February 23, 2018 @09:18PM (#16451240)
WebAssembly does not. However, for UI presentation you would want Servo and Stylo.
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