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Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ... by pcwalton on Monday April 22, 2019 @12:11PM (#19720086)
You realize that the people behind Web Assembly, for example Dan Gohman, are some of the foremost world experts in compilers who have worked for literally decades in the field?
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Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ... by usrusr on Monday April 22, 2019 @01:59PM (#19721086)
I don't think that GP was talking about the people who actually made web assembly, but about those who hype it. I'd be surprised if the former were not full of awareness of and respect towards the technologies that came before.
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Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ... by LameRubberDucky on Monday April 22, 2019 @06:23PM (#19723612)
Your appeal to authority notwithstanding, yes I do realize that. I was not referring to, nor condemning the authors of WebAssembly for their work. I was proposing an answer to the question above, about why it seems like a lot of software development is re-inventing the wheel.
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