D could catch this wave: web assembly

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 at 16:18:01 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Although I wouldn't put too much reliance on X, what with 
> Wayland on the way.

meh, wayland doesn't look very interesting to me, especially in 
this use case where I'd want a network protocol because the 
application runs on an isolated VM and needs to communicate with 
the host somehow.

> Yea, I'll have to take a closer look at that. My first 
> impression is that "Linux VM" sounds very heavy-weight, but I 
> supposed it need not necessarily be.

Well, keep in mind that I want to kill the browser, which is 
already very heavy-weight!

Firefox is like 80 MB.... 
http://www.tinycorelinux.net/downloads.html that's 9 MB and 
probably more than the browser VM would need! The core system 
should be sharable without copying the file every time, and its 
only job is to run one program, providing it a familiar, 
consistent base api. I don't think the weight would be much of a 
problem, though perhaps it might be on the mobile sphere.