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by pjmlp 2646 days ago
Yep, just like....wait for it....UCSD Pascal.
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Nobody is saying that the idea of a sandboxed VM is original. The interesting parts of wasm are the theoretically-uninteresting but important-in-practice features: JS interoperability, the LLVM backend, cross-browser support, etc.
Well, many are behaving as such.

Actually JVM got there first with JS-interoperabily.