But facebook wants to become one. If they could decide, there wouldn't be any news websites, every story would be shared over facebook.
Having private companies providing a public service works quite well at many places. Take media and twitter as example. At other places (broadband ISPs in the US) it sucks like hell.
This is no troll. This is a danger of this technology.
A) It' s a w3c standarized effort
Close, but still wrong
We’re pretty early into the overall process—there is no draft spec or even final formal standards body chosen, just a W3C Community Group
But it will be an open standard, thats sure.
"The Cloud" needs this. Microsoft for example has used asm.js inside their office online product.
[T]he API surface area is that of the Web platform (e.g., WebGL for graphics) and thus WebAssembly use cases will contribute to driving forward the whole Web platform.
The inventor of javascript, Brendan Eich, writes in his blog entry covering WebAssembly about the polyfill plans:
It’s crucial that wasm and asm[.js] stay equivalent for a decent interval, to support polyfilling of wasm support via JS. This remains crucial even as JS and asm.js evolve to sprout shared memory threads and SIMD support.
He further writes:
Yes, we are aiming to develop the Web’s polyglot-programming-language object-file format. [...] wasm should relieve JS from having to serve two masters [FAQ entry here].
Most likely due to Mozilla's envolvement, WebAssembly even tries to address the "binary" barrier built up when dealing with WebAssembly on a client.
Javascript is a scripting language. It has weak typing. In order to be sure of *anything*, you *have* to test. I agree, using jquery is as stupid as using boost. But you still have to test your application, and best you do it automated. That's what these frameworks are for.
Either we do it, or we let nature do it. And we do it right now. All this "world hunger" problem isn't just more than population control. Or think about the program China's been pulling off.
admittedly, this is also true for all feedback.
The difference is, it gets saved in the cloud, and your data can be sold to third parties.
Ship that by default if you dare!
Yes, exactly.
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.
