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Re:Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla by nullifidian on Monday October 26, 2020 @07:47PM (#24902925)
RISC-V is from a significantly differing category. A category for WASM doesn't really exist yet, there is nothing else like this -- a relatively low level bytecode language with high-level features such as nominal types, garbage collection, modules.
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Re:Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla by xuejie on Monday October 26, 2020 @08:35PM (#24903282)
IMO such a category existed for quite a long time, JVM and .NET all falls into this category. Yes WASM has its fame for becoming a browser standard, but fundamentally, there is very little difference between WASM and JVM.
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Re:Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla by nullifidian on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @06:02AM (#24905892)
JVM has objects as the basic building block. For WASM it's linear memory(ies), so it's lower level, and was created from the start to support languages like C/C++. .NET indeed looks quite similar, given that it supports C++ compilation, tough I'm not familiar enough with the compilation model to draw comparisons.
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