D could catch this wave: web assembly

Thu Jun 18 10:41:41 PDT 2015

On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 11:00:37 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> they will never stop, won't they? "modern web: building piles 
> of shit on top of piles of shit". (sigh)

Indeed.

«Even before browsers ship native support for WebAssembly, 
developers can ship applications on the Web using a polyfill 
which converts WebAssembly to JavaScript. »

Basically binary asm.js... What are they thinking?

And whyyyyyyy are they calling a binary format "assembly"?