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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by maxxxxx on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @04:53PM (#17086386)
Let's hope that the current "let's rewrite xxxyyyy in JavaScript" will soon be "let's rewrite it in webassembly". This makes much more sense to me.
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by wffurr on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @07:16PM (#17087228)
You don't rewrite in wasm, you compile to it.
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by abiox on Thursday May 17, 2018 @12:59PM (#17093096)
well, technically there is a textual format for webassembly... :P
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by maxxxxx on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @08:09PM (#17087498)
Correct. And you can use different languages not just JS.
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