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by ethbro 3816 days ago
There was an article on the history of Internet standards that I really liked that noted the most effective and adaptable standards had all essentially been API-like rigidly-defined-but-simple boundaries.

The relationship between WASM and JS seems to be "js/js virtual machines are a de facto standard, so let's not repeat the mistakes of Java plugins and instead build off that foot-in-the-door."