D could catch this wave: web assembly

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 18:33:16 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 18:15:32 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
>> I didn't even read it, I thought it was going to be like a 
>> standardized pnacl from the naming.
>
> Well, it is hard to say what it will become, maybe it is 
> possible come up with an  IR that doesn't sacrifice performance 
> and still can easily be translated into Javascript with 
> reasonable performance.
>
> But what's the point? One could compile an application to both 
> asm.js and WebAssembly instead.
>
> Sounds like politics could turn this into a long stumbling 
> process.

That is already the case. Mozilla dropped the NaCl wagon in the 
middle of the road, letting Google alone on that one, to promote 
their concurrent ill advised "standard".

Now there is 2 standard, one that is actually pretty good, but 
supported only by google, and another one that is retarded, but 
supported more widely. As nobody want to admit they fucked up, 
the whole joyous band of over-bloated bogus standard designers 
decided to bless us with a 3rd "standard" that is roughly 
equivalent to PNaCl, but is not PNaCl, because pride is more 
important that webdev's sanity.