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by TazeTSchnitzel 756 days ago
But WebAssembly is one of the most promising opportunities in a long time to escape the C ABI problem. Why should we squander that? Do we want to be stuck writing C forever?
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adastra22 756 days ago
Why not just come up with a new calling convention and implement it for a handful of popular languages?
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pjmlp 755 days ago
Some of us already escaped that, with other bytecode formats, or stuff like COM, AIDL, XPC, D-BUS.
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