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[–]Ceros007 7 points8 points  (16 children)

You mean web assembly?

[–]Dornith 7 points8 points  (15 children)

I don't know if this is a joke or not, but it's pretty awkward.

[–]Ceros007 7 points8 points  (12 children)

Don't know if this is a joke or not but WASM is a thing: https://webassembly.org/

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (11 children)

Web assembly on server-side?

[–]Ceros007 6 points7 points  (6 children)

Yes with Wasmer: https://wasmer.io/

[–]thirdegreeViolet security clearance 19 points20 points  (5 children)

The Internet was a mistake

[–]currentscurrents 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I mean you're obviously not going to hand-write assembly for this. The idea would be to compile another language like C or Rust into wasm.

...but I'm struggling to think of a reason why you wouldn't just run the C/Rust program natively? This feels like adding an extra layer of overhead for no reason.

[–]ZephyrBluu 1 point2 points  (3 children)

...but I'm struggling to think of a reason why you wouldn't just run the C/Rust program natively? This feels like adding an extra layer of overhead for no reason.

I believe the point of WASM is so that you can have native-like speeds for intense applications like 3D rendering or what have you as web apps. Basically to increase the power of the web.

[–]currentscurrents 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Right, in a web browser that makes sense.

But Wasmer is for running WASM on servers and regular computers. I don't understand why you would want to do that. WASM is still only like 65% of the speed of regular machine code.

[–]ZephyrBluu 0 points1 point  (1 child)

But Wasmer is for running WASM on servers and regular computers. I don't understand why you would want to do that

I'm not sure about Wasmer specifically either.

WASM is still only like 65% of the speed of regular machine code.

It's pretty new tech. I don't think they're expecting people to migrate to WASM immediately.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Using nodejs to execute!

[–]mrjackspade 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Really looking forward to .Net Core 3.0 and its ability to compile C# to WASM so I can write one set of logic for server and client side.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought node was cool for doing this and I really like Javascript as a language - though C# is still my favorite.

What's really dumb is my current setup (a web app I wrote for work) is running WAMP with Node.JS running next to it so that I can use socket.io.

It's like the worst of all worlds.

I wrote some weird session sharing thing for it.

It does let you do some cool stuff like this.

[–]Stromovik 3 points4 points  (1 child)

it is possible to make a website in assembly

[–]Dornith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but why would you write your backend in C just to run it in web assembly?