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Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by minitech on Friday October 27, 2023 @10:24PM (#38046510)
It has exactly the same potential in the control and code-running respects as (minified) JavaScript. It’s overrepresented in malware because it’s faster, i.e. better for cryptominers. (Many sandbox breaches come from JavaScript’s complexity.)
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Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by pests on Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:29AM (#38047145)
Right, did everyone forget about ASM.js? We already had conpile-to-js, it was just a horrible subset of more efficient JS. WASM is just the extension and further development of that.
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