u/oilshellin r/ProgrammingLanguages • Recommends
On “Missing the point of WebAssembly”
…asible at all, performance-wise. That is, ABIs are usually biased toward one language or another, and baking them to WASM is implicitly picking winners and losers.
And they avoid doing that. So basically there is still *another* standards battle to be fought.
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WASM co-creator Rossberg very recently in 2023 explaining the finished work: link to this video
> Non-goals: "magic" multi-language inter-op
> "That in-general has never been a goal for WebAssembly, and **very intentionally so, because it never works**"
> ABIs are a separable problem, can be defined on top
> lack of built-in ABI spec is key to WASM's success*because it enables performance
If you watch the rest of the present…