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I'm afraid that we are on vastly different wavelengths. If you feel that you can improve WebAssembly, then by all means, please do so.

I am convinced that I can do good by making Binary AST a reality, so I will focus my energy on that.

Thanks for the conversation.




So, basically, all your "arguments" for binary AST resolve to:

- binary AST will not have versioning problems unlike WASM (this is false)

- binary AST is better than ASM, because as soon as you standardize on bytecode, "your VM will not evolve" (this is false)

- binary AST can be used to view/debug source code, while WASM can't (this is false)

- binary AST is faster to load and parse than WASM (neither false nor true, because there are no comparisons or experiments)

- supporting WASm means supporting two versions of ECMA standard unlike binary AST (which is false)

and so on and so on

However, Javascript is already a dumpster fire, so this effort will neither improve nor worsen the situation




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