- From: mofo syne <mofosyne@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2016 22:32:14 +1000
- To: public-webassembly@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CAPJM1pfMhsemNHAyhngHbwfufwEib8wCTcuSHZOin=Ydc__04w@mail.gmail.com>
I am sure this has been thought of, but I haven't found this idea in google searches. What would be interesting, is if the web assembly infrastructure/standard provide some mechanism for automatically dealing with compilers/interpreters besides javascript. So much like having a package manager automatically download dependencies in linux. What may be useful is if there is a online repository of wasm binaries of interpreters and compilers for all the major languages in the web. What this would allow, is for users to insert source code into their website besides javascript, take for instance those who want to give dart programming language a shot. The major issues hampering experimentation with languages besides javascript is the lack of support of browsers for other languages. WASM helps solve the javascript hold over client side scripting, but at a potential cost to openness of the code. Hosting a common popular compiler infrastructure manager would encourage users to insert normal source code into their website besides javascript. Well that's my 5cents to the discussion. I'm sure this is not the only way to approach the aspect of making wasm more open to others that chose to be open. Cheers,
Received on Sunday, 14 August 2016 12:32:42 UTC