Re: Wow: wasmtime

On Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 6:59:08 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: wasmtime: https://wasmtime.dev/ > > Please take a look at Lin Clark's video.[In the link above] > Or you can read this page , which includes the video, but a

Re: Wow: wasmtime

On Friday, September 4, 2020 at 5:46:53 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: Lin Clark's blog > > > contains this announcement >

Re: Wow: wasmtime

On Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 6:59:08 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > As part of my "what's next for Leo" project, I decided to check in on > what's new with webassembly. > Lin Clark's blog contains this announcement

Re: Wow: wasmtime

On Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 11:00:38 AM UTC-5, vitalije wrote: > By definition wasm code can't do anything that ordinary javascript in the browser can't do... > Concerning user tracking, all major social networks use it all the time, regardless of wasm... > Comparison with the Flash tech

Re: Wow: wasmtime

> > I forgot to include the potential for malware. Some links: > According to the research mentioned in your third link that claims half of the web sites using wasm use it maliciously, the malicious usage consist in obfuscating and mining. According to the first link, from the figure 4 it is

Re: Wow: wasmtime

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 10:23 AM Thomas Passin wrote: > 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-

Re: Wow: wasmtime

Yes, that's so, and I understand that web assemblies are basically a Google effort to do that. On Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 11:20:12 AM UTC-4, lun...@gmail.com wrote: > > You're giving technology and standards too much credit. Corporations are > going to create closed systems and implement

Re: Wow: wasmtime

On Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 11:00:48 AM UTC-4, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 7:41 AM Thomas Passin > wrote: > >> 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 >>

Re: Wow: wasmtime

You're giving technology and standards too much credit. Corporations are going to create closed systems and implement data hiding no matter the tools they have at hand and they're going to continue to do it mercilessly unless socially/culturally disincentivized to do so. Web assemblies will not

Re: Wow: wasmtime

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 7:41 AM Thomas Passin wrote: > 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. > I have

Re: Wow: wasmtime

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. I do see that they could be very good in non-web use, but that's n

Wow: wasmtime

As part of my "what's next for Leo" project, I decided to check in on what's new with webassembly. Here is my google trail: webAssembly: https://webassembly.org/ non-web Embeddings (because Leo doesn't run on the web): https://webassembly.org/docs/non-web/ WebAssembly High-level goals: https:/