WebAssembly is just Adobe Flash all over again.
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@tk former is an open standard for running lower-level code in the browser while maintaining all safeguards, latter is a proprietary plugin that bypasses the browser to run insecure shit basically from the desktop and only pretend it's inside of the browser.
They're pretty much direct opposites.
@tk see highlighted answer lol
@Amikke Also, sounds like WebAssembly is the logical successor for implementing arbitrary software in the browser. Did you miss that point?
Software people are weird.
@tk ?
Have you seen the shit people do with JS? Or Google Docs / Office 365? We're *way* past the point of implementing arbitrary software in the browser.
the difference is now you wont have to use js as a pretend bytecode compile target.
the functionality is the same, yes. the developer only cares about the interfaces it exposes and the accessibility of the internals. the tool is useful to developers and the users do not want the features it brings. this is how web dev works.
@Amikke Safeguards?