Comment by casey2
4 hours ago
Saying ActiveX here shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what both WASM and ActiveX are.
Is ActiveX platform independent? No. it's exclusive to windows. Is it sandboxed? Nope, digital signing and prayer, does it implement a virtual machine? Nope. Compromises out the wazoo? efficiency, data orientation, or predictable performance? You betcha. ActiveX is closer to a DOM sandbox escape exploit than a real piece of engineering. Why do we need WASM when we've have GET since 1990?
Don't confuse the map for the territory, implementation details matter, just labeling something "Mars Colonial Transporter" doesn't mean it actually flew to mars.
What is a fundamental misunderstanding is selling WebAssembly as the first time bleeding Web and native code has been achieved.
All those "look Python on the browser!" were already done by ActiveState with Perl, Python and Tcl.