Re:Universal Binaries Using WASM
by int_19h on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @07:04PM
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> What people have wished for, since... oh, 2001 or so, is the ability to write web-app frontends without needing to grok and deal with the awful runtime semantics of Javascript
It was so even before 2001. Consider why the <script> element as the "type" attribute to begin with (and why it had the "language" attribute originally, before "type"). As I recall, W3C specs from that era gave examples such as Tcl! On Windows, you could use anything that implemented Active Scripting APIs - e.g. Perl. JS just happened to be the one that everybody had, because it was the first, and so it became the common denominator, to the detriment of the industry.
It was so even before 2001. Consider why the <script> element as the "type" attribute to begin with (and why it had the "language" attribute originally, before "type"). As I recall, W3C specs from that era gave examples such as Tcl! On Windows, you could use anything that implemented Active Scripting APIs - e.g. Perl. JS just happened to be the one that everybody had, because it was the first, and so it became the common denominator, to the detriment of the industry.