[riotman]

Bad question on my part. More relevant: Why wasm? From what I gather, js seems to already have a bytecode for their JIT runtime. Why not expose that so that we can have C++ in the web?

[floatboth]

> js seems to already have a bytecode for their JIT runtime

This is kind of a nonsensical statement. JS itself doesn't have a bytecode, it's just a specification of the language you write scripts in.

Each implementation has its own intermediate representations, including bytecode formats.

WASM is a vendor-neutral standard that is designed as a compilation target and designed with safety in mind.

SpiderMonkey/JSC/V8 internal bytecode formats are just that, compiler internals.

[singularity2001]

I asked the same question, see below for interesting thread

[riotman]

sigh I think the modern web was a mistake from hacks of the 90s to share documents. Can we plz get a fresh restart from scratch?