On Friday, May 29, 2020 5:15:45 PM MST Colin Walters wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2020, at 8:01 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > > > WebAssembly is just in web browsers. It's not for normal software you'd > > install with your package manager. Unless I'm missing something? > > > You are indeed missing > > https://webassembly.org/docs/non-web/ > https://wasi.dev/ > > More random links, and I'm sure others have better ones: > > https://github.com/enarx/enarx/wiki/WebAssembly-(Wasm) > https://deislabs.io/posts/introducing-krustlet/ > https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/02/securing-firefox-with-webassembly/ > https://rustwasm.github.io/2018/10/24/multithreading-rust-and-wasm.html > https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/08/webassembly-interface-types/ How does this compare to LLVM IR in terms of performance? What software do you believe it would make sense to ship as WebAssembly? Would it actually be beneficial compared to shipping software normally? <rant> With WebAssembly, it's getting to the point where I really just have to ask "Why?" when this sort of thing comes up. It seems that we're just looking for ways to overcomplicate things at this point, pulling in "Web" technologies for things that are surprisingly simple. Web browser vendors continue to surprise me with how overcomplicated these things are getting. I remember when web browsers didn't need gigabytes of RAM to function properly, when they didn't need to run in multiple processes. </rant> -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
