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Re:Lisping at JPL Revisited by sph on Saturday January 28, 2023 @05:38PM (#34562762)
What I mean is that I should be able to use TensorFlow, or a Ruby library or Qt6 from any other platform and language, without someone having to write bindings to it or porting it wholesale. We've been wasting thousands of man years just rewriting the same code everywhere, with the quality of implementation being dependent on how popular the language is. So you get the best libraries on Java, and smaller ecosystems never reach critical mass because there's no good libraries. This is unsustainable.

I really am hyped for WASM components.

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Re:Lisping at JPL Revisited by anon291 on Sunday January 29, 2023 @12:42AM (#34565278)
Wasm is just java for people who weren't around for Java.

Unfortunately, making a new isa is the easy part. The hard part is defining the abi.

.net came closest. Wasm is focusing on the wrong problem.

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