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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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[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 -
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Webassembly AST semanticsstory by espadrine · 2015-06-17 · 0 comments
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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