Mozilla + Intel + Red Hat Form The Bytecode Alliance To Run WebAssembly Everywhere

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mozilla + Intel + Red Hat Form The Bytecode Alliance To Run WebAssembly Everywhere

Mozilla, Fastly, Intel, and Red Hat have announced the Bytecode Alliance as a new initiative built around WebAssembly and focused on providing a secure-by-default bytecode that can run from web browsers to desktops to IoT/embedded platforms...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=The-Bytecode-Alliance

[Redfoxmoon]

Oh dear god.

[Britoid]

Surprised Red Hat is involved in this, didn't think they would care much about WebAssembly.

[uid313]

Microsoft is pursuing Blazor to run .NET in the web browser through WebAssembly.

[Scellow]

these people are stuck in the 80's, nobody want this "alliance"

[Drago]

WASM is the new JVM

[treba]

these people are stuck in the 80's, nobody want this "alliance"

Speak for yourself

Interesting, so we will get even more powerful applications in the web, getting less and less platform and architecture dependent. With Rust as a first class citizen I suppose.

[S.Pam]

Yay more applets for the people! We all get a nice backdoor by Christmas 🤶

[F.Ultra]

these people are stuck in the 80's, nobody want this "alliance"

Remind me again of what we had back in the 80's that is anything like this?

[kpedersen]

Its basically a reaction to the silly idea that everything should run in a web browser.

You will one day see browsers implemented in web browsers.

Emscripten is a godsend because I refuse to touch web-designer scripts.