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Re:Barclays Bank Using Internet Archive as CDN for JavaScrip... by secondcoming on Friday July 03, 2020 @08:19AM (#23723314)
WASM needs to be killed with fire before it's too late.
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Re:Barclays Bank Using Internet Archive as CDN for JavaScrip... by yellowapple on Friday July 03, 2020 @08:34AM (#23723421)
Hard disagree. WASM is as good an opportunity as any to enforce better security habits, and indeed seems to be designed specifically with browser security/sandboxing in mind. "Killing" WASM does precisely nothing to fix the status quo around JS insecurity.
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Re:Barclays Bank Using Internet Archive as CDN for JavaScrip... by secondcoming on Friday July 03, 2020 @08:52AM (#23723518)
Yes, so were Java and applets. And we all know what happened there.
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Re:Barclays Bank Using Internet Archive as CDN for JavaScrip... by jfengel on Friday July 03, 2020 @08:32AM (#23723395)
Why? I don't know much about WASM, but surely it is better than the cobbled together monstrosity that is JavaScript.
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Re:Barclays Bank Using Internet Archive as CDN for JavaScrip... by bioipbiop on Friday July 03, 2020 @05:43PM (#23727907)
All the insecurity of js, but with the opaqueness of assembly.
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Re:Barclays Bank Using Internet Archive as CDN for JavaScrip... by nightowl_games on Friday July 03, 2020 @12:43PM (#23725443)
Hard disagree. WebASM and emscripten is the way away from JavaScript, into a better future where code is more cross platform and more performant.
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Re:Barclays Bank Using Internet Archive as CDN for JavaScrip... by baybal2 on Friday July 03, 2020 @08:19AM (#23723315)
Fully agreed!
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