WebAssembly is more than the web
At the risk of sounding like an old grumpy guy[0], isn't this kind of what Java[0] set out to achieve some 20 years ago?<p>I am in no position to compare the two by any metric other than age. But I <i>am</i> old enough to appreciate how such ideas tend return every couple of decades.<p>Is this an IT thing, or is this phenomenon known in other areas, too?<p>[0] I am not even that old, and I do my best to not be grumpy.<p>[1] Yes, yes, Smalltalk, too. But Java - AFAIK - was the first language that aimed for platform-independent bytecode + network delivery of code (Applets, Webstart).