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Nothing intrinsically wrong with plugins that are instantly available on every platform.
Hope you keep being positive when Flash, ActiveX, Java, Silverlight get reimplemented in WebAssembly.
I was a bit skeptical of WebAssembly when it started popping up, but reading through this and the MDN docs has made me get a bit more excited. In a few years WebAssembly might make for a great environment to learn about lower level programming. I've always loved assembly, since it gives you the bare minimum of concepts and tooling from which you can build everything. What's the reasonable thing to do when a grow-memo…
> I've always loved assembly, since it gives you the bare minimum of concepts and tooling from which you can build everything. Well... modern assembly is monstrously complex. Probably more so than your favorite high level programming language. Modern assembly is generally not a bare minimum, because it's designed to give compilers the interface to run code fast, not to be easy to program by people. And WebAssembly is…
My comment was written with the 8086 emulator in mind. It was great because you could view what was in each register, as well as the inspect any section of memory.