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by Deukhoofd 989 days ago
While it'd be a nice addition, I wouldn't expect it any time soon.

It's currently still a stage 1 proposal, while we've been waiting for years for other proposals to be merged. The last time a proposal was actually finished was over 2 years ago.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals

https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals/blob/main/finished-...
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vouwfietsman 989 days ago
Indeed, webassembly is moving extremely slowly. I started a project years ago expecting https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory-control/blob/main/prop... and https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory64 to be fixed at some point. Neither are yet, and the project still suffers from it to this day.

I think wasm is still great without these fixes, but I have lost confidence in the idea that wasm will reach its full potential any time soon.

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chrisco255 989 days ago
https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory64/blob/main/proposals/...

For your second one, it looks like it is already implemented in Chromium and Firefox but not Safari. Sadly, it's not new for Apple to be dragging their feet on moving web standards forward.

It took what seems like a decade to get proper WebRTC support in Safari.

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pjmlp 989 days ago
Eventually people will realise its potential is being yet another bytecode format, with VC trying to capitalise products on top of it.
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vmfunction 988 days ago
Assembly is not bytecode! V8 already has bytecode for the web. WASM is meant to run faster and more efficient computations.
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pjmlp 988 days ago
Dude first learn what you are talking about.

> WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the web for client and server applications.

https://webassembly.org/

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PoignardAzur 988 days ago
I was going to say that everything around interoperability in Wasm has been stalled for years, but hey, looks like garbage collection has reached phase 4! That's a pretty big one!

The component model (aka interface types aka snowman types aka...) is still stuck is phase 1, though. After almost four years, that's not encouraging.

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