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> This is completely wrong. The JVM works at an extremely high level.

I'll give you that; it was just one example. There have been plenty of others in history, Pascal P-code is closer to WebAssembly and that's from the 70's! The concept of a portable assembly language is neither new or interesting. WebAssembly is just another compiler target -- if you can compile to it, you can compile to every other native CPU directly. That's just not that interesting as an intermediate form. Java was slightly more interesting as they abstracted the entire platform not just the CPU.

I stand by my statement that WebAssembly is only valuable because it's sandboxed in the browser.

> Honestly it seems like HN is blind to fundamentals and everything new is just some hyped up useless piece of shit.

Maybe being blind to the fundamentals is not knowing the 50 years of technology that has already been done. Remixing old technology in new ways is valuable and in this case remixing portable assembly with the browser sandbox is the cool part.