On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 03:57:39 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 9/2/2015 7:48 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
but still i'm meh on the practical usefulness of such things.
I guess if you
target a canvas and run your code in it that makes more sense
but my preferred
style is a progressive enhancement webpage where you want to
know the browser
platform and work with it rather than around it.
I don't see a whole lot of point to generating JS from another
language. You can't do anything more than JS can do, and you're
likely to be doing less.
That is silly. asm.js is a very restricted typed subset with
strict rules that allows generation of pure assembly in a
contiguous memory sandbox. It is a completely different setup. If
you move outside those rules the compiler give up and switch to
regular JIT with less restrictions. WebAssembly aims to go beyond
what you can do otherwise (like multithreading).
