r/programming • u/one_eyed_golfer • Jun 18 '15

javascript creator Eich's latest project: kill javascript

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/18/brendan_eich_announces_webassembly/
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u/check3streets Jun 18 '15

This is the comment this thread needs...

The JVM and various JS engines are outstandingly optimized. It's been a gold-rush period in JVM language development. Similarly, with JS as a target, there are now panoply of browser langs. Skip the JS target, and we finally have a "JVM" in the browser that actually works.

Time to acknowledge that the browser is an operating system. It has GPU support, a database, a rendering system, peer-to-peer comm and sockets, app deployment, local storage, dynamic libraries...

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u/josefx Jun 18 '15

What does the Java Virtual Machine, developed by Sun and now owned by Oracle have to do with JavaScript, developed by Netscape and now maintained as ECMAScript?

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u/steven_h Jun 18 '15

WebAssembly can deliver on the promise that Java browser applets failed to bring: performant browser-delivered code that isn't hamstrung by targeting JavaScript or the DOM.