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by macspoofing 3294 days ago
>The same for WebAssembly: use it if you like, but please don't make your actual content unnecessarily dependent on the use of services from these multinationals.

WebAssembly is an open-standard.

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It's EXEs and JARs for the Internet.

Sure, it has a text format, but it's the equivalent of Lispified Java bytecode. (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Underst... (uninformative but current), http://loyc.net/2016/lesv3-and-wasm.html (2016, from when wasm wasn't finalized, but has some good concrete examples that look like the wasm in the first link))

With this being said, it may actually be easier to figure out wasm than frameworkified JS since you can apply IDA-style reversing to it.

Open question: what existing tools and research are good at inferring the high-level behavior of stack machines? Eg, research papers, or (preferably open source) tools for reversing eg Java code. I want links I can throw at Ph.Ds.

>It's EXEs and JARs for the Internet.

It's bytecode. I'm not sure if it is a big downgrade from 100,000 lines of minified JS code.

>With this being said, it may actually be easier to figure out wasm than frameworkified JS since you can apply IDA-style reversing to it.

It may.

Obviously not open-source, but IntelliJ's decompiler is excellent.