Re: WebAssembly design is done?

2017-03-07 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
This looks like a nice tool for those wanting to learn more about WebAssembly: https://mbebenita.github.io/WasmExplorer/

Re: WebAssembly design is done?

2017-03-03 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 08:06:00AM +, Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] > The general public has become more ignorant. I guess to a large extent > because of information overflow and the downfall of real journalism > (e.g. the old payment model is failing which means media is

Re: WebAssembly design is done?

2017-03-03 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 2 March 2017 at 19:52:58 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: At some point there will be a resistance movement, forking one of the main browsers and building in collaborative blacklisting etc. I hope, but I'm skeptical. Big business is definitely headed very 1984, but that's h

Re: WebAssembly design is done?

2017-03-02 Thread Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d
On 03/02/2017 04:18 AM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at 18:28:00 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: Well, it's Google's main domain, and they've kinda already settled into a pattern of making decisions more on self-serving grounds than for the good of the product/use

Re: WebAssembly design is done?

2017-03-02 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at 18:28:00 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: Well, it's Google's main domain, and they've kinda already settled into a pattern of making decisions more on self-serving grounds than for the good of the product/users. "Don't be evil" doesn't exactly set a very hig

Re: WebAssembly design is done?

2017-03-01 Thread Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d
On 03/01/2017 05:15 AM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: So, maybe the conclusion is: don't let corporations create technology standards in their main domain, because then they try to create monopolies and start misbehaving. Browsers is a side-line tech, so... this might have a chance..? Well, it'

Re: WebAssembly design is done?

2017-03-01 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at 09:00:42 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: If we could invent a technical way to screw over, underminine, and completely replace corporate interests, it would be the single greatest achievement in computing (not to mention economic theory), EVER. I bet Intel

Re: WebAssembly design is done?

2017-03-01 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at 08:56:37 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: On 03/01/2017 03:47 AM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at 08:01:41 UTC, Saurabh Das wrote: I'm not so up-to-date about the mechanics of WebAssembly, but it would be pretty exciting to run D cod

Re: WebAssembly design is done?

2017-03-01 Thread Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d
On 03/01/2017 03:46 AM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Tuesday, 28 February 2017 at 21:50:11 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: What a long, roundabout path we've taken to end up back where we started: shipping binaries in a sandboxed environment. Portable object-files is something that that people have

Re: WebAssembly design is done?

2017-03-01 Thread Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d
On 03/01/2017 03:47 AM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at 08:01:41 UTC, Saurabh Das wrote: I'm not so up-to-date about the mechanics of WebAssembly, but it would be pretty exciting to run D code in the browser. Is this now possible or have I completely misunderstood what

Re: WebAssembly design is done?

2017-03-01 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at 08:01:41 UTC, Saurabh Das wrote: I'm not so up-to-date about the mechanics of WebAssembly, but it would be pretty exciting to run D code in the browser. Is this now possible or have I completely misunderstood what WebAssembly allows for? It should be possible, a

Re: WebAssembly design is done?

2017-03-01 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 28 February 2017 at 21:50:11 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: What a long, roundabout path we've taken to end up back where we started: shipping binaries in a sandboxed environment. Portable object-files is something that that people have tried to achieve since the 1980s, but vendors have

Re: WebAssembly design is done?

2017-03-01 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
I'm not so up-to-date about the mechanics of WebAssembly, but it would be pretty exciting to run D code in the browser. Is this now possible or have I completely misunderstood what WebAssembly allows for?

Re: WebAssembly design is done?

2017-02-28 Thread Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d
On 02/28/2017 11:26 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: On 02/28/2017 10:28 PM, Joakim wrote: What is the alternative you prefer: javascript and its myriad vulnerabilities? Probably shipping binaries in a sandboxed environment...but, you know, *without* the browser community badly reinventin

Re: WebAssembly design is done?

2017-02-28 Thread Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d
On 02/28/2017 10:28 PM, Joakim wrote: On Tuesday, 28 February 2017 at 21:50:11 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Tuesday, 28 February 2017 at 18:04:39 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: [...] What a long, roundabout path we've taken to end up back where we started: shipping binaries in a sandboxed en

Re: WebAssembly design is done?

2017-02-28 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 28 February 2017 at 21:50:11 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Tuesday, 28 February 2017 at 18:04:39 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: [...] What a long, roundabout path we've taken to end up back where we started: shipping binaries in a sandboxed environment. What is the alternative y

Re: WebAssembly design is done?

2017-02-28 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 28 February 2017 at 18:04:39 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: «WebAssembly CG members representing four browsers, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and WebKit, have reached consensus that the design of the initial (MVP [1]) WebAssembly API and binary format is complete to the extent that no fur

WebAssembly design is done?

2017-02-28 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
«WebAssembly CG members representing four browsers, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and WebKit, have reached consensus that the design of the initial (MVP [1]) WebAssembly API and binary format is complete to the extent that no further design work is possible without implementation experience and signif