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Looks like Mozilla won this fight. When Mozilla didn't accept PNaCl and Pepper API proposed by Google, Mozilla went down the ASM path which now led us to Web Assembly being the general way forward.
Can you open a socket or write to the file system with WASM ?
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How is it better than WebAssembly?
It executes (sandboxed) native code directly, instead of requiring JIT compilation to native.
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On windows, you no longer need either with bash for windows you can have a near complete linux experience while running inside windows natively.
If you can assure me that is the case, fantastic! Do you know of a way to test the UX of ssh from bash for windows for less than $5 ?
As a web developer working primarily in JS, what should I be learning now to stay relevant/up-to-date once WebAssembly is more common? Are we going to see more web stuff built with c++, like the dsp example in this blog post?
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I don't think WebAssembly will become more common than JavaScript anytime soon. And even when it will be, it means the tooling will have become so good that you won't even have to think about WebAssembly. That will be left to the people who create compilers to WebAssembly. Hopefully you'll just use whatever language your org/team/etc. uses, and have it compiled to JS or WebAssembly as is most appropriate for said lan…
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…
I'm not a web developer but this has definitely peaked my interest to the point I've been dabbling with WebAssembly. It's really easy to get going so I could see a lot of people with other than WebDev backgrounds getting into application development in the browser.
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…
Google could have allowed Chrome to be used as a cross-platform GUI library (THE cross platform GUI library), but left it to Electron (lagging behind and requiring distribution); think XUL runner. I don't see the sense in that. I'd absolutely love a modern XUL runner.
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I've got this crazy idea. Since "Linux Desktops" are generally running GNU under the hood for providing user land services, why don't we call those systems... I don't know... "GNU/Linux"? That way we can distinguish them from systems that use the Linux kernel, but have a completely different user land infrastructure. I know, I know. It's crazy talk....
How many of them actually intimately use the GNU userland as opposed to Xorg and whatever libc's installed? GNU's an increasingly irrelevant portion of unix and unixlike systems -- most of the actually important userland portions are python, ruby, the aforementioned Xorg, etc.
So it was just kind of a snarky joke because the parent said that to be a "Linux Desktop" you had to be able to get ssh running (presumably they meant openssh). And while that's not GNU, GNU is what the vast majority of "Linux Desktops" will use to get you there -- so the implication really was that "Linux Desktop" == "GNU/Linux Desktop".
I thought it was funny, but probably I was being too obscure. Also, I should know better than to dive into politics for no good reason.
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Right, they might notice it, but why would they care? They don't know that they should care, it is just a computer being a computer and it probably spins up the fans for other tasks too. They would be right to not care unless told otherwise, sys ops isn't their job. I think it would be smart to educate people as part of a regular security briefing for non technical staff though. But if it's something that high of con…
Does battery usage not matter?
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Google developed NaCl and PNaCl and put the latter out on the Web with no spec --- just "pull this version of LLVM and ship it". Also, apps written in PNaCl used the Pepper API for all platform features, a giant pile of Chromium code also with no spec. All an absolute nightmare for anyone who cares about Web standards and browser bloat. These efforts required big Google teams working for many years ... efforts which…
There's no blunder: Google had a goal, threw out something, stimulated competition over the precise implementation, and now there is a universally (among browser vendors) accepted solution moving the web in the direction Google wanted. That's a strategic victory for Google.