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WASM has 64-bit ints, did asm.js support those? How can you polyfill that without a real slowdown.
A property with getter and setter backed by singleton typed array instance?
Any operation, like 64-bit adds/muls/divs/etc would have to call emulation functions. It'll be orders of magnitude slower.
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What does that mean: "polyfilled with asm.js"?
That you can run asm.js code on wasm.
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Yeah. Wouldn't it be great if they just created a simple VM with well specified bytecode so that we could push the complexity into our tooling and just compile into the standard target?
And if that VM ran on over 2 billion devices, on every toaster out there? In the end, this all is just reinventing the JVM, in slower, but more secure.
Do you remember the part where everyone started using JavaScript instead because of all the deficiencies of Java Applets? (Slow to load, resource intensive, no interaction with the surrounding page)
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I guess the first ones jumping on the WebAssembly wagon will be Web developers, so we will probably get WASM modules written in languages they see appropriate, when JS doesn't cut it anymore. I guess it will be Rust or Go. Rust because of Cargo (for npm users a big +) and Mozilla (good marketing of Rust). Go because of Google (also a Web company with good marketing) and because I read some Node.js developers already…
Doesn't WASM need GC support before Go can be used? It'll need to be fully managed languages until then, I think. With that said I'm just parroting some other comments I've seen on this topic in other contexts, so I'm asking the question genuinely.
This one I'm fine with since WebAssembly is a worthy replacement, but I'm still annoyed at Google discontinuing Chrome Apps. Some examples of specialized apps I use all the time that would require a native app otherwise: - Signal Desktop - TeamViewer - Postman - SSH client - Cleanflight drone configuration tool It was one of the best things that happened to Linux desktops in a long time and removing it hurts users an…
- unblockable advertising
- stronger DRM
- Bitcoin mining that regular user can't detect
- etc..
It will be good and bad, but, more bad than good.
We could choose not to run .exe .bat and the rest
So far, webassbly doesn't look optional.
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And if that VM ran on over 2 billion devices, on every toaster out there? In the end, this all is just reinventing the JVM, in slower, but more secure.
> In the end, this all is just reinventing the JVM, in slower, but more secure More secure?
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That you can run asm.js code on wasm.
I suppose I should have asked "what does polyfill mean in this context?" Does that term really alias "run [it] on" or is there something more subtle about this term's meaning?
This one I'm fine with since WebAssembly is a worthy replacement, but I'm still annoyed at Google discontinuing Chrome Apps. Some examples of specialized apps I use all the time that would require a native app otherwise: - Signal Desktop - TeamViewer - Postman - SSH client - Cleanflight drone configuration tool It was one of the best things that happened to Linux desktops in a long time and removing it hurts users an…
Your comment scared me, but TFA doesn't say that: > We will remove support for PNaCl in the first quarter of 2018 everywhere except inside Chrome Apps and Extensions. Where do you see that chrome apps are being discontinued? Otherwise this is FUD.