That ship of human-readable code on the web has sailed long ago with Javascript minimization, and it is also not really relevant. Has the quality of web development improved because people can do 'view source'? Hardly ;)
I, for one, welcome our new byte-code overlords :) Cheers to everyone involved :) Am Mittwoch, 17. Juni 2015 19:36:54 UTC+2 schrieb Morgaine Fowle: > > This sounds like the death of human runnable code on the web, and the end > of machine-to-machine interoperability that JS-as-target has given us. > Building a bunch of dev tools for a bytecode language is a shocking > prospect. This is a major major change, and I worry that the relative > thin-ness, the human-ness of the web is a thing that's made it great, > that's made it a preferred platform, and that this puts a very serious kink > in that. > > Emscripten has been great because it's targeted JS, and enriched it. But > with languages just focusing on a VM underneath, I worry the tech will > recede into various factional camps, with no interest in aiding the greater > web. I'm happy we have good new tech under development, this sounds like an > interesting effort, but it also opens very scary ends where the web becomes > as banal as every other native platform, as isolated and by itself, with as > little interest in enriching the greater whole as we see with everything > else not-Web, or without major embedding points (which I'd classify as > enriching, but in a single-serving capacity). Today's a major win for > machine to machine, but I worry that we're closing the door on people. > > Fair us all well. Expecting a report on devtools situations in this brave > brave new world soon, regards, yours, > rektide > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "emscripten-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
