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Re:Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me ... by summerlight on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @12:26PM (#31342195)
Aren't those functionalities critical for WASM to fully replace JS and become "the common runtime" for all web languages? I don't think we can build an efficient implementation of those on top of the "simple" WASM.
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Re:Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me ... by brabel on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @12:41PM (#31342412)
Spend 5 minutes reading about WASM and see how everyone involved in it keeps repeating "replacing JS is NOT the goal". Even with all the repeating, the message does not seem to be coming across.
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Re:Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me ... by jhgb on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @01:04PM (#31342778)
To be fair, I imagine the original IBM PC team in 1980 kept repeating "replacing our mainframes is NOT the goal", too.
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Re:Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me ... by jhgb on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @12:29PM (#31342243)
The more features you add, the less (not more) common it's going to be as a runtime.
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