On Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 11:00:48 AM UTC-4, Edward K. Ream wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 7:41 AM Thomas Passin <[email protected] 
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>> I am so opposed to webassemblies that I don't want to work on them.  Web 
>> assemblies if widespread will encourage the trend towards breaking the web 
>> by making URLs meaningless, and will promote more closed silos and data 
>> hiding.
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> I haven't heard anything about this. Could you provide some links?
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I forgot to include the potential for malware.  Some links:

https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2018/10/dark-side-webassembly/#h4-webassemblys-date-malware
https://medium.com/better-programming/webassembly-is-the-end-of-the-internet-as-we-know-it-9085a49cbc7b
https://it.slashdot.org/story/20/01/08/1421216/half-of-the-websites-using-webassembly-use-it-for-malicious-purposes

Otherwise, I have read about how WA will break the web, but I can't find 
them again so far.  WA is being presented as a way to get better/faster/etc 
programming languages into the browser.  But actually it will be more like 
Flash - it's taken years to flush Flash out of the system, and now we're 
going to get a more advanced rendition.

I suppose it's inevitable, but I don't have to like it.

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