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Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web

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    That sounds really cool. Doesn't do anything for me as a layman non-programmer, but hopefully, all those Electron apps will fuck off to be replaced by something speedier when WASI comes around.

    That sounds really cool. Doesn't do anything for me as a layman non-programmer, but hopefully, all those Electron apps will fuck off to be replaced by something speedier when WASI comes around.

    2 votes
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      Anything that isn't proprietary and efficiently decreases the amount of JavaScript in the wild is a good thing. JavaScript should be the little bit of spice, not the main dish.

      Anything that isn't proprietary and efficiently decreases the amount of JavaScript in the wild is a good thing. JavaScript should be the little bit of spice, not the main dish.

      4 votes
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        I've met devs whose websites don't even work without JS. Know what they were building? An old-school CLI simulator in browser. With React. When you can't view a website using Links in text mode,...

        I've met devs whose websites don't even work without JS. Know what they were building?

        An old-school CLI simulator in browser. With React.

        When you can't view a website using Links in text mode, you done fucked up.

        4 votes