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There is a FAQ entry on this point: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#is-...

comment by binji · 2016-10-31 · in WebAssembly Browser Preview

I really think that https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/112#issuecommen... is the winner in this thread.

comment by slantview · 2016-10-31 · in WebAssembly Browser Preview

I am such a softie: I don't even particularly like https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/112#issuecommen... , but I feel sad that the little koala illustration will never be used.

comment by zeveb · 2016-10-31 · in WebAssembly Browser Preview

…access to browser APIs, but the MVP version that is being implemented now, does not yet allow it: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/JS.md WASM code can call external functions defined per module, and the external code can…

comment by aspirin · 2016-10-31 · in WebAssembly Browser Preview

Looks like https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/112#issuecommen... is the winner.

comment by jbpetersen · 2016-10-31 · in WebAssembly Browser Preview

…VM code supported by all major browsers sounds like one. There's a whole Wiki page dedicated to GC: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md Sounds like they aim to implement only GC primitives to allow emulating a wide…

comment by vesinisa · 2016-10-31 · in WebAssembly Browser Preview

…announcement overshadow what's really important: bikeshedding over the official WebAssembly logo https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/112 :)

comment by kibwen · 2016-10-31 · in WebAssembly Browser Preview

…access browser functionality through the same Web APIs that are accessible to JavaScript; ? https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/HighLevelG...

comment by detaro · 2016-10-31 · in WebAssembly Browser Preview

…the caveat that it needs to get traction beyond the web to really take off (which is the goal - https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/249#issuecommen... ).

comment by rch · 2016-10-04 · in Why I hate frameworks (2005)

No DOM access for the MVP. They do plan on eventually supporting it though: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeat...

comment by markdog12 · 2016-09-20 · in If TypeScript is so great, how come all notable ReactJS projects use Babel?

…ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript#4th_Edition_.28aban... [2] https://webassembly.github.io/ [3] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/219 [4] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md

comment by niftich · 2016-09-12 · in JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the Desktop

WebAssembly(wasm) needs one https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/112

comment by themihai · 2016-08-27 · in Offer HN: Free logo design for an open source project

…invest in. [0] https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs#readme [1] https://webassembly.github.io/ [2] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeat...

comment by shurcooL · 2016-08-18 · in Go Proposal: first-class support for sorting slices

Yes, this is indeed on the roadmap: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md Interoperability with GC systems is a prerequisite and will come down the road from the initial ("MVP") release.

comment by mintplant · 2016-08-05 · in Mozilla Awards $585k to Nine Open Source Projects

…[0] https://webassembly.github.io/ [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1188259 [2] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md

comment by mintplant · 2016-08-05 · in Mozilla Awards $585k to Nine Open Source Projects

…[1] C++ in your browser tomorrow? Check. [2] [1] http://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/ [2] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/CAndC++.md

comment by guiambros · 2016-07-17 · in Why age in software is bullshit

…validation, the WebAssembly text format should be much more natural to read and write than asm.js. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#wil... Now I didn't mean to come off as snippy and for that I do apologize, but I…

comment by SquareWheel · 2016-07-13 · in WebAssembly Specification Prototype

There is an effort under way to ensure wasm debugging is at least as easy as JS debugging: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/pull/708

comment by dekimir · 2016-07-13 · in WebAssembly Specification Prototype

…. There's more information about the current binary format here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/BinaryEnco... There's a prototype spec interpreter here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/tree/master/ml-

comment by binji · 2016-07-13 · in WebAssembly Specification Prototype

…it differs from JS in several respects, as it aims to reflect the underlying WebAssembly language. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/pull/704 If you're strongly opinionated about WebAssembly having a readable format for the Open Web…

comment by JasonSage · 2016-07-13 · in WebAssembly Specification Prototype

All that is planned though, just not for the MVP: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md

comment by stupidcar · 2016-07-13 · in WebAssembly Specification Prototype

Something in text: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/112#issuecommen... \\//

comment by vmorgulis · 2016-07-13 · in WebAssembly Specification Prototype

And the project is in search of a logo. You can find a bunch of proposals here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/112

comment by icefox · 2016-07-13 · in WebAssembly Specification Prototype

WebAssembly doesn't really add any more language choices for the DOM directly. At least not yet: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md

comment by IshKebab · 2016-07-05 · in WebAssembly: A New Compiler Target for the Web [video]

…nothing of it really, but it seems like a long-term goal, not shortterm for the WA design team. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/189 As an aside, I am a weak programmer, but I love what you guys have done with Racket,…

comment by 616c · 2016-06-27 · in A Case for the Pyret Programming Language

github.com/WebAssembly/sexpr-wasm-prototype github.com/WebAssembly/spec github.com/WebAssembly/design

comment by flamedoge · 2016-06-25 · in Build Your First Thing with WebAssembly

…files in the links). If you're super brave, there's hints about the Binary AST format here [2] [1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/TextFormat... [2] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/BinaryEnco...

comment by niftich · 2016-06-25 · in Build Your First Thing with WebAssembly

…format with a 20-30% reduction size than its gzipped asm.js counterpart[1], for context :) [1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/Rationale....

comment by slimsag · 2016-05-13 · in Taking Rust everywhere with rustup

…A contributor is working on a JIT right now to make execution faster [1]. Hope that clarifies! [0] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md [1] https://github.com/plasma-umass/doppio/pull/443

comment by jvilk · 2016-05-08 · in Java Polyfill for the Browser

…websites. Non-web embeddings will be possible [1], but are not currently being developed. [0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/Web.md#web... [1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/NonWeb.md

comment by s3th · 2016-03-25 · in Ask HN: Will there be native web assembly Mobile APIs?

…to do with JavaScript. You can even see all the possible instructions here to confirm [1]. 1. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/AstSemanti...

comment by esailija · 2016-03-15 · in Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8

…(JavaScript, DOM, Web API) objects." [2] [1] http://moduscreate.com/webassembly-explained/ [2] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md

comment by michaelwww · 2016-03-15 · in Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8

…C bridging stuff [3]. [1] http://bytecrafter.blogspot.nl/2015/06/a-quick-overview-of-w... [2] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md [3] https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/...

comment by DonHopkins · 2016-03-15 · in Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8

…That being said, i really want DOM access from Rust, so perhaps it's a moot point heh [1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md#gc--...

comment by fizzbatter · 2016-03-15 · in Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8

There's a response above this one from titzer describing it, or you can read more here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/DynamicLin...

comment by binji · 2016-03-15 · in Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8

…GC into you wasm module. More general-purpose GC will be supported, but not in the initial release: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md

comment by jfbastien · 2016-03-15 · in Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8

…emscripten w/asm is a solid benchmark. It is NOT primarily about C++ just because that's the v1. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#whi...

comment by bpicolo · 2016-03-15 · in Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8

…else is an afterthought that will come later. WebAssembly isn't about minifying your JS. Read this: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md GC, DOM access, etc. don't exist in WebAssembly code, yet.

comment by Touche · 2016-03-15 · in Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8

…that the web stays open and debuggable [2]. [0]: https://www.w3.org/community/webassembly/ [1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/TextFormat... [2]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/Tooling.md

comment by s3th · 2016-03-15 · in Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8

…when minified, than WebAssembly is. View-source is an explicit goal of WebAssembly's first launch: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#wil...

comment by jfbastien · 2016-03-15 · in Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md

comment by sbierwagen · 2016-03-15 · in Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8

…sort of native Garbage Collection, as well as the concept of opaque reference types. See more here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md

comment by s3th · 2016-03-15 · in Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8

Yes, you should have a read of the FAQ: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md

comment by alimbada · 2016-03-15 · in Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8

Yes; the WebAssembly project has some ideas on this here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/NonWeb.md

comment by sunfish · 2016-03-15 · in Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8

…allocation) and the rebuttal looks slightly uninformed. There are discussions about coroutines ( https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeat... ) and more generally about low-level capabilities (…

comment by junke · 2016-03-12 · in Call for support for Lisp in WebAssembly development

…WebAssembly: https://github.com/WebAssembly/polyfill-prototype-1 And the load times are still good: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#can...

comment by clouddrover · 2016-03-12 · in State of the Art JavaScript in 2016

…interop, GC + DOM integration, and view-source to see the textual encoding of wasm [0][1]. [0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/Web.md [1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/TextFormat... (Disclaimer: I…

comment by s3th · 2016-03-10 · in Brendan Eich: WebAssembly is a game-changer

…[1] for WebAssembly. (Disclaimer: I'm on the V8 team.) [0]: http://webassembly.github.io/ [1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/BinaryEnco...

comment by s3th · 2016-03-10 · in Brendan Eich: WebAssembly is a game-changer

…of asm.js. I intend to implement a JIT similar to QEMU's tcg as soon as Web Assembly supports it: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeat...

comment by copy · 2016-02-23 · in Show HN: Windows 98 in browser

…create workaround-ish solutions in a form of "WASM -> language of your choice" decompilers. [1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/pull/457

comment by anonx · 2016-01-16 · in A look at asm.js and the future with WebAssembly