WebAssembly is more than the web

Jul 13 2018 While WebAssembly was given its name for good reason, I also think it’s quite the misnomer. When you hear about WebAssembly, don’t just think of the web: think bigger. Many programmers know that WebAssembly is a technology that lets you run non-JavaScript code in the browser. That is true, but there’s a lot more to it. You see, the spec is written in a very interesting way: there’s the

[Rockridge]

JavaVMのような実行環境があれば、将来的にWebAssemblyベースのデスクトップアプリケーションも作成可能になる。

[tanakh]

JVMからここに至るまでにずいぶん遠回りをした感はあるなあ(´･_･`)

[bigchu]

webassembly / 信じていいん

[braitom]

ふむ。“WebAssembly is not a way to run code other than JavaScript on the web; WebAssembly is a tiny, embeddable language that you can use almost anywhere.”