Re: [go-nuts] Now that wasm is 'standard'... bundle common lang runtimes with browsers

2019-12-22 Thread Robert Engels
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 > wrote: > > ISTM that this requires being able to distribute the runtime of th

Re: [go-nuts] Now that wasm is 'standard'... bundle common lang runtimes with browsers

2019-12-22 Thread 'Axel Wagner' via golang-nuts
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.

[go-nuts] Now that wasm is 'standard'... bundle common lang runtimes with browsers

2019-12-22 Thread Russtopia
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-runt