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dlubarov on March 15, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8

Well it's not really machine code, since no hardware uses wasm as its native instruction set; it's just low level bytecode.

And it's really intended as a compilation target; I don't think anyone wants or expects average web developers to code in wasm.

noiv on March 15, 2016 [–]

Well, it runs on a virtual machine, not that much different. And the design doc states "writing by hand", but the s-expressions look interesting. Finally Lisp for browsers :)

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