On: WASM will replace containers

[zfg]

How else am I supposed to use a Visual Basic 6 clone written in C# in my browser?

https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/

https://github.com/BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6

WebAssembly brings all languages to the browser and that's a good thing.

I can write applications for the desktop in any language, I should be able to do the same thing in the browser.

WebAssembly makes that possible.

[pjmlp → zfg]

Back in the day you would have used .NET plugin for browsers, which got replaced by Silverlight plugin, nowadays it is WebAssembly, really nothing new per se.

[zfg → pjmlp]

Except that it's implemented in all browsers with nothing extra to install.

All third party browser plugins failed eventually.

[pjmlp → zfg]

And now we have all plugins back, that is the only utility for WebAssembly, doing two level translation of bytecodes.

[zfg → pjmlp]

WebAssembly is no more a plugin than JavaScript is.

[pjmlp → zfg]

Indeed, but it allows us to have our plugins back, and that is the only thing I care about.

https://cheerpj.com

https://opensilver.net/

https://vidkidz.github.io

[aqueueaqueue → zfg]

Minified JS also makes that possible.

[zfg → aqueueaqueue]

WebAssembly does it better.