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by pjmlp 2414 days ago
It isn't fashionable.
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What do you mean?
WebAssembly is the consequence of Mozilla not adopting PNaCL, and its advocates usually hand wave all the multi-language bytecode formats used throughout the industry since UNCOL, as if it is the very first of its kind.
WebAssembly got formal semantics with formal proof of soundness. PNaCl (and LLVM) still doesn't.
Politics, and yet it doesn't have bounds checking support.
BTW chrome webassembly is 2 time slower than pnacl.