Work Continues On WebAssembly For Low-Level, In-Browser Computing

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Work Continues On WebAssembly For Low-Level, In-Browser Computing

Work continues on the WebAssembly project that's the joint effort by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, and Apple to allow C/C++ (and potentially other languages) to target a virtual ISA that would be executed within the web-browser...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=WebAssembly-More-Progress

[M1kkko]

Perhaps this will finally allow us to write proper multithreaded web applications.

[clockley1]

ActiveX 2?

[Luke_Wolf]

Perhaps this will finally allow us to write proper multithreaded web applications.

more than that... in the long term it will allow us to completely get rid of the HTML/JS/CSS mess entirely

[paulpach]

ActiveX 2?

Sure, only sandboxed, platform independent, and supported by all major browsers. So ActiveX without the reasons ActiveX sucked.

[ssokolow]

more than that... in the long term it will allow us to completely get rid of the HTML/JS/CSS mess entirely

Only for games. It's like developing your entire web application in Flash.

Omit the HTML for anything else and you'll get burned in effigy for reintroducing the dark ages of no web accessibility and no SEO.

[Luke_Wolf]

Only for games. It's like developing your entire web application in Flash.

Omit the HTML for anything else and you'll get burned in effigy for reintroducing the dark ages of no web accessibility and no SEO.

There's no reason that WebAssembly can't implement Accessibility features, and given that Google is the primary developer of the standard either the SEO side of things is already solved or will be.

[pal666]

Perhaps this will finally allow us to write proper multithreaded web applications.

multithreading has nothing to do with instruction set

[Luke_Wolf]

multithreading has nothing to do with instruction set

maybe not, but Javascript is completely synchronous, or at least was before the new standard came out... I need to take a look over it to see if this is still the case or not.

[peppercats]

"web assembly" is, and always has been, a misnomer. It's much closer to a java applet.