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by hutzlibu 2646 days ago
You should consider, that you just have a bias against "web people".

But this technologie comes not from javascript webprogrammers, but from browsermakers.

People who specialize in sandboxing, performance and portability since years. And they had to do this with javascript... and now they want a better foundation, BECAUSE of the flaws of javascript.

So I don't know if they will succeed making a better jvm either, but they certainly have the expertise that they might succeed.
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naikrovek 2645 days ago
I have no bias against "web people", I have a bias against using the wrong tool for the job.

This REEKS of developers who are psyched about WASM and want to create solutions where no problem exists.

If they want performant code outside of the browser, use any one of the 2-3 dozen languages that already do this! WHY is a new runtime, with the inevitable serious security issues that will be exposed throughout it's life, needed for this?

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