Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM should have been

Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ... by dmitriid on Monday April 22, 2019 @08:15AM (#19718278)

> WebAssembly has been designed to scale from tiny devices to large server farms or CDNs

Has it, though? What we have now is an MVP, and easily 90% of the features aren’t there yet.

When WASM gets garbage collection, will it still be able to run on tiny devices? We don’t know yet.

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Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ... by asdkhadsj on Monday April 22, 2019 @08:20AM (#19718314)

I would hope it's opt in for those scenarios. If the host is too "tiny" to carry around GCs, then a whole host of languages are not viable anyway. Requiring a GC wouldn't do them any favors.

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Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ... by dmitriid on Monday April 22, 2019 @08:23AM (#19718328)

Hard to say without reading all the specs/proposals: https://webassembly.org/docs/future-features/

But yeah, even specification itself is WIP

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