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Already possible with PNaCL and CrossBridge in 2010, but yeah we needed to have it as a standard and delay everything for a decade.



Emscripten has been around since 2012, originally targeting JavaScript.

But if you’re comparing to proprietary examples, you could go all the way back to ActiveX in 1996.

Or, since today’s news is about Java, you could go back to Java applets in 1995. (At least those were somewhat secure, unlike ActiveX.)


Yeah, I left those out on purpose, because Java Applets did not support C and C++, although there were later compilers for the JVM, and ActiveX were straight COM x86 binaries.


You're entirely correct. Non-standard ("proprietary") things tend to not catch on.


The irony is that with ChromeOS taking over the Web it hardly matters.


I don't really know about PNaCL or CrossBridge, web is not particularly my domain but I was just trying to state the obvious advantage about WASM.




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