Show HN: Wasmer – A Go library for executing WebAssembly binaries

Re:Show HN: Wasmer – A Go library for executing WebAssembly ... by pjmlp on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:01AM (#20081013)

I complain about the adoration, like WASM was some kind of gift from God and everyone else that came before never existed.

10 years ago there were ways run Python in the browser. ActiveState used to have such plugin for example.

Why do you think there is a language attribute on the <script> tag?

And for some strange reason, the same ones that adore WASM, seem to only be aware of Java as bytecode format and nothing else.

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Re:Show HN: Wasmer – A Go library for executing WebAssembly ... by asdkhadsj on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @05:21PM (#20109293)

> 10 years ago there were ways run Python in the browser. ActiveState used to have such plugin for example.

I didn't say it was impossible, but it's a massive stretch to compare WASM now and some hack that worked if you had the right plugins installed. Common dude, that's just disingenuous.

edit: To think of it differently, I'm able to compile any language to run on any modern browser (which is most these days). I can even do it at my work, since we support Chrome. This was never possible before. I waited for years to run Python in browser without hacks or trickery. You're thinking I just oopses, missed that this was all possible before?

Sigh.

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