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Re:I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C by amw-zero on Monday February 03, 2025 @11:18AM (#42919775)
This is an opportunity to learn. The way WebAssembly is defined is the standard way PL semantics are defined.
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Re:I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C by veltas on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @07:23AM (#42931435)
WebAssembly isn't a programming language, it's an ISA or a bytecode VM. They've defined it in a very over-engineered way, with different representations all the way through. It has created issues for people working on assemblers and code generation because it's hard to choose a good representation for compilers to generate. This all could have been avoided.
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Re:I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C by amw-zero on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:37PM (#42936682)
Those are all programming languages.
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