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by lxgr 807 days ago
asm.js was the opposite of an alternative to JavaScript: It was a performant JavaScript dialect used as a compilation target for various languages otherwise targeting emscripten.

WASM is the spiritual successor to that, getting rid of the (in retrospect quite hilarious) "embedded backwards compatibility layer".
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6510 806 days ago
You don't compile to js because js is slow.

edit: for the record, I think having only one doc type (html) and only one scripting language (js) in the browser is a terrible idea.

I don't know what the other doc types and programming languages should be but performance alone seems like a poor idea. A compile target seems even worse. :)

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