Pretty much the JVM in the browser all over again... if I can live long enough 
maybe I can see people touting the ergonomics and simplicity of the 3270. 

> On Dec 22, 2019, at 5:33 AM, 'Axel Wagner' via golang-nuts 
> <golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> 
> ISTM that this requires being able to distribute the runtime of the language 
> separately from the "user code" and link them together again successfully. 
> Once you have that - it seems a problem far better solved by decent caching. 
> That is, as a Go-user, I'd put a "load Go runtime from 
> https://golang.org/wasm/<hash_of_version>" or something in my page. That 
> resource is then infinitely cacheable, thus must only be downloaded 
> approximately once (just as if it's bundled). What you get is, that as a 
> developer, you don't need to wait until your favorite version of the runtime 
> of your favorite language is available in all common browsers.
> 
> I'd see "the runtime is bundled with a browser" as replicating exactly the 
> main problem with javascript - that you can't use all its features, because 
> you constantly have to worry about whether or not it's supported in the 
> browser. It seems to subvert what I'd perceive as the main goal of wasm: 
> Decouple the browser engine from the code the developer wants to run in it.
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 9:16 AM Russtopia <rma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Crazy idea, but:
>> 
>> Now that wasm is 'official', why not push browser vendors to put the Go 
>> runtime/stdlib, built for wasm, right into the browser so it doesn't need to 
>> be downloaded with every single *.wasm project?
>> 
>> Of course, to be fair, not just Go -- why not also python-wasm-runtime, 
>> c-wasm-runtime, rust-std-runtime, ...
>> 
>> This would require some sort of 'runtime plugin' standard with versioning, 
>> feature-query and supply-chain security/update mechanisms, of course, but 
>> wouldn't it be nice?
>> 
>> I've been playing with gopherjs and go-wasm, and the big downside to both is 
>> that the baseline *.js file is 1.5-2MB or more, due to bundling a complete 
>> language runtime that must download with every app.
>> 
>> With official 'blessed' wasm runtimes for major languages we could finally 
>> break the deadlock on JS in the browser.
>> 
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