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Re:Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly by bgirard on Thursday October 11, 2018 @12:25AM (#18190969)
Where did you get that idea? It's not a design goal of WebAssembly: https://webassembly.org/

WebAssembly's goal is to provide a simple VM with performance good enough for the web to compete with native programs and to unlock use cases that are not possible to run efficiently in JavaScript.

The syntax that the developer see is totally irrelevant here.

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Re:Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly by knocte on Thursday October 11, 2018 @04:38AM (#18191826)
He not only mentioned syntax but design too. Clearly JavaScript's lack of int (for example, to mention a design decision of JS) is one of the reasons of its poor performance, not to mention its weak typing approach.
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Re:Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly by TomMarius on Thursday October 11, 2018 @06:33AM (#18192298)
There is no lack of int in Walt.
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Re:Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly by knocte on Thursday October 11, 2018 @10:51PM (#18198780)
So it's not really JavaScript??? lol
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Re:Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly by TomMarius on Friday October 12, 2018 @02:02AM (#18199569)
Exactly.
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