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by CaptainOfCoit 745 days ago
Most of the funded and innovative work on WebAssembly & co seems to come from various cryptocurrency/blockchain groups, for better or worse.
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k__ 745 days ago
It's well suited for permissionless compute.

Only issue is, not all languages that compile to WASM are deterministic.

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chrisco255 745 days ago
Yeah typically you cannot use garbage collectors nor multithreading in smart contract development.
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k__ 745 days ago
Interestingly, Lua has GC and is deterministic if you replace the random hash seed.
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