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Write once, run everywhere. I bet in few years we will run wasm natively on processor.
This is bad for frontend JavaScript being "open" for review, right? Companies will ask their developers to deliver WASM resources in the name of performance. As a notable side-effect, it will become harder to review how websites work. Yes, I'm sure there will be reverse-compilation tools for WASM, but still.
In practice, there's nothing that WebAssembly offers that could hinder analysis even further. If websites want to be transparent they could provide the sources (akin to providing unminified/unobfuscated JavaScript).
This is bad for frontend JavaScript being "open" for review, right? Companies will ask their developers to deliver WASM resources in the name of performance. As a notable side-effect, it will become harder to review how websites work. Yes, I'm sure there will be reverse-compilation tools for WASM, but still.
This feels like another step away from the free and open web many people are clamoring for. Distributing opaque binaries with websites instead of Javascript is a step past even the obfuscated minified javascript files meant to be confusing. At least those can still be debugged, stepped through, and explored freely by the end user if they want to learn or reverse engineer. Is there any tool or standard being worked on…
Doesn’t that reasoning also imply that GNU and Linux are awfully opaque and not free nor open, since they are typically distributed as binaries?
This feels like another step away from the free and open web many people are clamoring for. Distributing opaque binaries with websites instead of Javascript is a step past even the obfuscated minified javascript files meant to be confusing. At least those can still be debugged, stepped through, and explored freely by the end user if they want to learn or reverse engineer. Is there any tool or standard being worked on…
What's the horizon for WebAssembly capable browsers gaining enough marketshare that it becomes a viable compilation target?
https://caniuse.com/#feat=wasm Pretty much all relevant browsers support wasm (and I suspect data for the few non-compliant Chinese browsers may be outdated, they’re definitely not last released in 2016 or 2017). Do you have some other idea of wasm-capable?
This feels like another step away from the free and open web many people are clamoring for. Distributing opaque binaries with websites instead of Javascript is a step past even the obfuscated minified javascript files meant to be confusing. At least those can still be debugged, stepped through, and explored freely by the end user if they want to learn or reverse engineer. Is there any tool or standard being worked on…
Doesn’t that reasoning also imply that GNU and Linux are awfully opaque and not free nor open, since they are typically distributed as binaries?
If all websites made their source available as well as distributing the binary, there wouldn't be a problem.
The "arrival" of WebAsm to w3c only means that w3c had finally woken up from eternal slumber and realized that everyone has already implemented The listed features.