Silverlight was sold to us as the write one work in the main browsers solution that was going to take over. You can rightfully be sceptical of promises of any technology. It's all tools and its a matter of picking the best available ones at the time. Yes, web assembly might be great, but I would hate to go head to head with the architects over whether a half baked tool was good enough yet for the job.
On 21 Nov 2017 8:06 AM, "Greg Keogh" <[email protected]> wrote: > Can you afford to wait for http://webassembly.org too get to production >> ready??? >> > > A bit of reading on this does give me some optimism. The idea of a widely > supported general purpose bytecode that runs in browsers is a great idea. > But hang on ... haven't we been here before? What is Java bytecode, what is > IL? Now we'll have another one, but at least is seems to be getting input > from all the big companies. Then we pray for how long it will take before > the developer frameworks and language bindings pop up around it. How long > before I can write, debug and deploy a webassembly app from Visual Studio? > > *Greg #2* >
