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comment by ilaksh · 2015-12-16 · in What the web platform can learn from Node.js: The Darwinism of small modules

…that standard. Microsoft is a better player on the web today than they have ever been before. [1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design

comment by dangoor · 2015-12-01 · in Announcing TypeScript 1.7

…tools that would naturally occur. This exists, and you can contribute toward making it happen: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design You can even encourage sites to use Web Assembly and assorted Web APIs in lieu of HTML and CSS if you…

comment by pcwalton · 2015-11-29 · in Is the web platform getting too big?

…web, complete with sbrk(). It's worth perusing the design docs, it looks very sensibly designed: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design .

comment by rayiner · 2015-11-11 · in WebAssembly: Here Be Dragons [video]

This doesn't require browser support though. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#can...

comment by fulafel · 2015-11-10 · in Web Assembly

…a more robust solution that relies on WebAssembly GC will have to wait until after the MVP. [0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#is-...

comment by s3th · 2015-11-10 · in Web Assembly

…Trip" described by Stallman [5] seriously. I fear that wasm could make it much worse. - 1. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/TextFormat... 2. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=327092 3.…

comment by hn1234 · 2015-11-10 · in Web Assembly

…consider it essential to the high level goal of integrating well into the existing platform. [0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md

comment by s3th · 2015-11-10 · in Web Assembly

…Check out #3 from our high-level goals [1]. [0]: https://github.com/Flipboard/react-canvas [1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/HighLevelG...

comment by s3th · 2015-11-10 · in Web Assembly

…steps towards ensuring that wasm plays well with everything that's great about the web today. [0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/Web.md (Disclaimer: I'm a Google Chrome PM contributing to the WebAssembly project)

comment by s3th · 2015-11-10 · in Web Assembly

…the exact format yet, but it will be much more readable than current asm.js javascript [1]. [0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/TextFormat... [1]: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/643828456631857152 (Disclaimer:…

comment by s3th · 2015-11-10 · in Web Assembly

In the future we might be able to compile to Web Assembly. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/README.md

comment by Siecje · 2015-11-09 · in PyPy.js – PyPy in Your Browser

…with your opinions here and are working to a system that satisfies that concern. BTW taken from, https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/MVP.md

comment by devsquid · 2015-11-02 · in WebAssembly: a binary format for the web

It's not an increase in obscurity though: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/TextFormat... The format is intentionally being built in a way that you can look at the source, in the same way you would look at minified…

comment by k3d3 · 2015-11-02 · in WebAssembly: a binary format for the web

A polyfill to Javascript is already planned. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/Polyfill.m...

comment by dockimbel · 2015-11-02 · in WebAssembly: a binary format for the web

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/TextFormat...

comment by asdfologist · 2015-11-02 · in WebAssembly: a binary format for the web

Yep, FFI. GC/DOM/Web API integration is in the eventual plans. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md You want .NET on bare metal? Implement it on x64, ARM, MIPs and maybe PPC. You want .NET in the browser, implement it on…

comment by corysama · 2015-11-01 · in WebAssembly: a binary format for the web

I don't think javascript would go anywhere: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#is-... But It would be real nice to use C# as wasm.

comment by fagro · 2015-09-03 · in CIL (.NET bytecode) to WebAssembly compiler

…should keep working reasonably. WebAssembly defines a Text Format for exactly that purpose: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/TextFormat...

comment by renekooi · 2015-09-03 · in CIL (.NET bytecode) to WebAssembly compiler

The WebAssembly design repo ( https://github.com/WebAssembly/design ) has a bunch of high and low level details. Essentially, wasm is a spec for an instruction set and runtime environment for native apps, and it's designed so that existing…

comment by kevingadd · 2015-09-03 · in CIL (.NET bytecode) to WebAssembly compiler

…significantly smaller download sizes, which is quite important on the web, more details here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/AstSemanti... WebAssembly is in a different situation than gcc, clang, etc. It makes sense for…

comment by azakai · 2015-08-03 · in JavaScript is the C++ of the Web

Just wanted to note that all of Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla are working on WebAssembly, see https://github.com/WebAssembly/design .

comment by BrendanEich · 2015-07-31 · in Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control

Regarding TCO on WebAssembly: "Yes, proper tail calls will be supported, but likely not in MVP." https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/189 https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeat...

comment by icebraining · 2015-07-13 · in JavaScript developers are incredible at problem solving, unfortunately

…it's not the way forward. Right now it's listed as a future feature[1] so color me skeptical. [1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeat...

comment by mightybyte · 2015-07-09 · in JavaScript developers are incredible at problem solving, unfortunately

…the AST back to text so you can essentially, and explicitly, view the "source" of the module. See: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md And the section on "Will WebAssembly support View Source on the Web?". This, of…

comment by zzalpha · 2015-06-25 · in WebAssembly- Explained

…it to native code but that is entirely browser specific and has nothing to do with WebAssembly. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/TextFormat... "Given that the code representation is actually an Abstract Syntax Tree, the…

comment by bcheung · 2015-06-19 · in Skeleton WebAssembly target

…and dependency management in WASM. Will there be a WebAssembly equivalent of Maven/npm/et al.? [1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/NonWeb.md

comment by pc2g4d · 2015-06-19 · in From Asm.js to WebAssembly

…Emscripten itself will make use of it (though that won't be the only way it can be used) [1]. [0] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#wha... [1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#wha...

comment by sunfish · 2015-06-19 · in Skeleton WebAssembly target

…format is intended to be that way and apparently is yields more compression than using only gzip: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/BinaryEnco...

comment by AriaMinaei · 2015-06-19 · in From Asm.js to WebAssembly

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeat...

comment by M8 · 2015-06-18 · in Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Others Team Up to Launch WebAssembly

…C/C++ source code from the .wasm file was compiled, but then something is better than nothing) [1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/TextFormat...

comment by sankha93 · 2015-06-18 · in Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Others Team Up to Launch WebAssembly

…browsers will apparently be able to show a canonical text format representation. (more info here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/TextFormat... ) Citation: > Will WebAssembly support View Source on the Web? Yes!…

comment by Udo · 2015-06-18 · in From Asm.js to WebAssembly

…momentum and will remain the single, privileged (as described above) dynamic language of the Web. " https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#is-... The WebAssembly team is being incredibly thoughtful and open about their…

comment by LittleDan · 2015-06-18 · in From Asm.js to WebAssembly

…capabilities, especially in the context of code garbage collection and defragmentation. From https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeat...

comment by jamii · 2015-06-17 · in From Asm.js to WebAssembly

The FAQ at https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md has an item about that. The WebAssembly has a view source implementation that translates the bytecode into a textual representation that is easier to read than asm.js

comment by soapdog · 2015-06-17 · in From Asm.js to WebAssembly

…looks like they have really thought through this hard -- if you look through the post-MVP plans ( https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeat... ) there are a lot of exciting ideas there. But it's not just pie-in-the-sky…

comment by haberman · 2015-06-17 · in From Asm.js to WebAssembly

[edit: additional context: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#wil... ] I think this argument is sort of a nostalgic one, especially with the advent of mobile apps. Mobile apps, their quality and responsiveness, are…

comment by randall · 2015-06-17 · in From Asm.js to WebAssembly

…will be more readable than asm.js, so it is an improvement over the current state of things, https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#wil... I do agree though that asm.js is less readable than handwritten JS. However, as…

comment by azakai · 2015-06-17 · in From Asm.js to WebAssembly

This is at least addressed in the comments, which point to this link: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#wil...

comment by rfrey · 2015-06-17 · in From Asm.js to WebAssembly

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#wil... makes me happy as that was the first concern I had when reading these news :)

comment by McElroy · 2015-06-17 · in From Asm.js to WebAssembly

Yep https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeat...

comment by corysama · 2015-06-17 · in From Asm.js to WebAssembly

The current plan ( https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/Web.md#imp... ) is to integrate WebAssembly into the ES6 module system (so you could have a JS module import a WebAssembly module and vice versa). With this design, the…

comment by andhow · 2015-06-17 · in From Asm.js to WebAssembly

…should still compile to JavaScript)? EDIT: I see an optimizing JIT is planned for future versions: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeat... while the MVP is primarily meant to serve as a target for C/C++.

comment by pron · 2015-06-17 · in From Asm.js to WebAssembly

also important in my eyes: shared memory threading: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/PostMVP.md... Threads themselves may be "ugly", but to build all the pretty abstractions you need them as foundation.

comment by the8472 · 2015-06-17 · in From Asm.js to WebAssembly

I think the biggest win is https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeat... . Now instead of asm.js being only for emscripten-compiled code (or other non-GC code) WebAssembly can be used for higher level, GC'd languages. And…

comment by kodablah · 2015-06-17 · in From Asm.js to WebAssembly