D could catch this wave: web assembly

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 17:41:44 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> 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"?

wow

I didn't even read it, I thought it was going to be like a 
standardized pnacl from the naming.

this is ridiculous, you could release /dev/null for the web and 
it would generate unlimited hype.