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260 mentions on Hacker News by 196 people: 15 stories, 245 comments · first 2015-06-17 · latest 2026-05-03

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  1. Compiling from JavaScript to WebAssembly is not possible and makes no sense. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/219
    comment by hun-nemethpeter · 2016-01-16 · in A look at asm.js and the future with WebAssembly
  2. …web-site (e.g. "google.com") and try to view its source. Is minified JS really that readable? [1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#wil...
    comment by anonx · 2016-01-16 · in A look at asm.js and the future with WebAssembly
  3. …source projects. Go look at the spec. It's at a much lower level of abstraction than JavaScript is. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/AstSemanti...
    comment by msandford · 2016-01-11 · in What is WebAssembly? (2015)
  4. …and languages. Web development without (at least optional) GC is going the wrong direction. 1 - https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/104
    comment by kodablah · 2016-01-11 · in What is WebAssembly? (2015)
  5. First: WebAssemly will have a readable text format for view-source functionality: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/TextFormat... Second: "...so much easier to spy on people and hide all kinds of nastiness in web…
    comment by spyder · 2016-01-11 · in What is WebAssembly? (2015)
  6. …access to the DOM and made it one of the first things to implement after the minimum viable product https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/87bf5b62988eb5005...
    comment by singularity2001 · 2016-01-11 · in Intent to implement WASM in v8
  7. …on the entire JavaScript API with invalid parameters. How long before someone finds a hole? [1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/205
    comment by Animats · 2016-01-10 · in Intent to implement WASM in v8
  8. …format that is convertible to and from the binary format, supporting View Source functionality." https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/HighLevelG...
    comment by devsquid · 2015-12-18 · in Compiling to WebAssembly: It’s Happening
  9. …built into the spec of WASM to at least try to make the bytecode convert into human readable code. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/HighLevelG... But as you state, its not integral to a "open web". IMO WASM is a long time…
    comment by devsquid · 2015-12-18 · in Compiling to WebAssembly: It’s Happening
  10. …'Open source by default' is a problem to be solved at a cultural level, not a technical one. [0] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#wil...
    comment by m0dc · 2015-12-17 · in Compiling to WebAssembly: It’s Happening
  11. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/363#issuecommen...
    comment by ilaksh · 2015-12-16 · in What the web platform can learn from Node.js: The Darwinism of small modules
  12. …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
  13. …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?
  14. …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]
  15. 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
  16. …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
  17. …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
  18. …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
  19. …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
  20. …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
  21. …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
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    Web Assembly
    story by Siecje · 2015-11-09 · 66 comments
  23. 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
  24. …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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/TextFormat...
    comment by asdfologist · 2015-11-02 · in WebAssembly: a binary format for the web
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. …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
  31. 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
  32. …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
  33. 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
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    An universal binary format for everything
    story by vmorgulis · 2015-07-21 · 0 comments
  35. 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
  36. …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
  37. …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
  38. …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
  39. …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
  40. …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
  41. …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
  42. 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
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    WebAssembly will support tail call optimization
    story by r-u-serious · 2015-06-18 · 0 comments
  44. …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
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    WebAssembly Design Documents
    story by daviducolo · 2015-06-18 · 0 comments
  46. …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
  47. …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
  48. …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
  49. 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
  50. …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