D Language Foundation July 2024 Quarterly Meeting Summary

[Paulo Pinto]

On Saturday, 7 December 2024 at 17:53:22 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
> On Saturday, 7 December 2024 at 15:16:10 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> He said one thing that had been annoying was that the WASM 
>> interface was basically POSIX, but the compiler didn't treat 
>> it as such for versioning. He'd had to implement a lot of 
>> versioned dummy code to get it to work. He would like to see 
>> the compiler recognize WASM as POSIX.
>
> I imagine he's learned the hard way by now but no, it uses 
> posix names but its all a lie and you need coordination between 
> html js and your code to even consider reading a file 
> "correctly" and I believe all the different places where wasm 
> can be require slightly different hacks to make it work.
>
> Its probably a bad idea to turn on whatever features as they 
> will just be broken or worse, pretending to work until you 
> implement something that actually uses it then youll play wack 
> a mole for a long time and lets be honest your not going to 
> find a full time wasm to even attempt to keep up with w3c's 
> bullshit, much less make it nice and worth using, the least 
> responsible standards committy on earth may just drop a years 
> worth of work every 3 months for some rust "feature" no other 
> language even understands.

Additionally that is now kind of stuck in some political turf, as 
the WebAssembly folks are moving into a CORBA/COM kind of 
approach with WebAssembly Component Model, and not all parties 
agree with this way forward,

https://component-model.bytecodealliance.org/