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Re: Vim.wasm

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Post by rajeevk »

be_erik wrote: post #22

This is absolutely incredible. I never thought this would be possible-- wasm opens a new phase of software development and deployment.

Probably next step would be to run nginx/node in browser!

This will enable doing full web development in browser only

Re: Vim.wasm

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Post by tkinz27 »

I wonder if this will be useful for electron based editors like vscode's vim plugin. I know the plugin is "good" but I always find something that works in vim and doesn't in the plugin and end up going back to my terminal.

Re: Vim.wasm

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Post by sgift »

pjmlp wrote: post #88
tty2300 wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wasm is company and technology independent and went through the proper process for becoming a standard rather than being forced in by some corp hoping to take over the internet. It also doesn't have any of the security issues because its limited to things JavaScript can do.

Both alternatives that I mentioned, Flash and PNaCL did have open source implementations available, it is just a matter of following the links I posted. WASM doesn't offer any security over internal data corruption as buffer access within linear memory aren't validated for data bounds or nullability. So it is possible, for a WASM module generated from C or C++ code, to provide input data to its functions in such a wa…

> Both alternatives that I mentioned, Flash and PNaCL did have open source implementations available, it is just a matter of following the links I posted.

At least for Flash I remember that the OSS implementations couldn't run many real-world flash programs. Did this change later?

Re: Vim.wasm

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Post by nitrogen »

tinus_hn wrote: post #92

Perhaps it’s because I block web fonts but once I start typing little turds remain where the intro text was.

I've seen that too on other sites, and I think it's a font rendering bug with hinting or subpixel smoothing not properly adjusting the bounding box that needs to be repainted.

Re: Vim.wasm

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Post by OskarS »

neilv wrote: post #86
dguaraglia wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

RMS is the Terence McKenna of open source: a fundational figure whose ideas where way ahead of the curve, but also a too extreme to attract the mainstream.

Almost no one goes full RMS. But I suggest that the world would be much better if everyone went even 50% RMS. Relevant: https://old.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/ (Disclosure: RMS was a childhood hero, since I read the Steven Levy "Hackers" book, right up there with Mr. Rogers, Richard Feynman, Neil Armstrong, and Marvin Minsky. One day, RMS reached out, to ask me to sign over copyright, to the FSF, of a tiny bit of…

It's true, even though most people don't go "full RMS", he's clearly a force for good in the Universe, and he's fighting the good fight for the benefit of all of us.

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Post by neilv »

OskarS wrote: post #98
neilv wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Almost no one goes full RMS. But I suggest that the world would be much better if everyone went even 50% RMS. Relevant: https://old.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/ (Disclosure: RMS was a childhood hero, since I read the Steven Levy "Hackers" book, right up there with Mr. Rogers, Richard Feynman, Neil Armstrong, and Marvin Minsky. One day, RMS reached out, to ask me to sign over copyright, to the FSF, of a tiny bit of…

It's true, even though most people don't go "full RMS", he's clearly a force for good in the Universe, and he's fighting the good fight for the benefit of all of us.

RMS has done a lot, but perhaps his main role now is to encourage others to do things. In the good fight, people shouldn't thank him for his service, but rather, join up.
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