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Yeah but WASM is an open standard that big names in the industry agreed on, including Foss advocates, with a design to accomodate many popular languages and the most popular plateform in the world: the web.

So it has actually a chance to not be limited to one ecosystem or one company.

In fact, the simple idea that it's going to have a monopoly in the browser pretty much guaranties a broad attempt of adoption.

JVM and main frames could have been it, but they never were.

Let's try if we can make it work with a different name this time.



Ancient bytecode formats were mostly about multiple languages support, also here WASM is hardly innovative.

And some of them, also with multiple vendor offerings.

Chrome already has preview features available, that other browsers might adopt, or not.




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