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by mlevental 3035 days ago
but i'm asking what are some webasm languages/backends/use cases that aren't a JS interpreter?
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jononor 3035 days ago
There is a work ongoing to enable WASM to be used for Etherum smart contracts, replacing the custom VM/bytecode.

One could use WASM for reconfigurable on-edge computing, all the way down to microcontrollers.

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swsieber 3035 days ago
WASM for Ethereum would be amazing. There are a lot of languages with much better safety stories than the current one.
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kodablah 3035 days ago
See http://webassembly.org/docs/non-web/. Portability. For example, I can use Rust on the JVM: https://github.com/cretz/asmble/tree/master/examples/rust-re...
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