Comment by tiborsaas

7 years ago

Step 1) Find a language that can do that

Step 2) Compile it to WebAssembly

Step 3) Validate those input fields

Step 4) Profit

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wruza  7 years ago

I better wait a decade, it ain’t much competition since we’re all in the same boat. It’s nice that many are happy with what we have now, but I don’t understand why you dismiss this suggestion so easily (and superficially, as it seems).

Wasm doesn’t allow 1+2, since browsers dictate how io/device/extension-communicating code should be done and their native routines are not ready for techniques of the level higher than just a bare callback. Wasm is not a solution, since the platform and primitives are the same. It is basically the same javascript-in-a-browser model with syntax and scoping rules to be implemented by someone else.

One can emulate any language by turning js/wasm into a virtual machine, but that’s not speed or battery-friendly.