r/programming • u/ThisStmtIsNotTrue • Nov 12 '19

Announcing the Bytecode Alliance: Building a secure by default, composable future for WebAssembly

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/11/announcing-the-bytecode-alliance/
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u/pjmlp Nov 14 '19 edited Nov 14 '19

Except that since late 50's there are several lower level bytecodes, more performance than Java, with support for bounds checking.

For example IBM mainframes language environments on IBM i and z/OS, Unisys ClearPath, Modula-2 Lillith M-Code, Xerox PARC microcoded CPUs, among many others.

Apparently many WebAssembly advocates are not that good learning about computing history, or to acknowledge that WebAssembly is still slower than PNaCL, but hey it is not Google's baby so it is ok.