alt Hacker NewsNot really: ASM.js became WASM. What killed the possibility of WASM being The One Way to run everything is AI... the one wildcard that Gard Bernhardt didn't predict.
Not really: ASM.js became WASM. What killed the possibility of WASM being The One Way to run everything is AI... the one wildcard that Gard Bernhardt didn't predict.
To be honest, with how bad a target WASM is for any existing compiler, I feel like what killed that possibility was WASM itself.
Its IR design is horrendeous.