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Re:An Urgent Notice from AssemblyScript by paulddraper on Sunday July 25, 2021 @03:36PM (#27952228)
I think you know the poster is taking about programming languages, where the bulk of complexity lies.
Re:An Urgent Notice from AssemblyScript by trusktr on Sunday July 25, 2021 @05:00PM (#27952870)
Yes, but WebAssembly operates at the boundary with JS, and that is not UTF-8. JS uses WTF-16 at runtime, and if WebAssembly did too then this would make interop between Wasm and JS a first-class feature with maximal performance and without security and data integrity issues.