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> As I understand it, billions of people wouldn't be using the API; a few compiler authors would.

Yes, but billions of people may suffer the consequences of the WASM design doing something stupid and then the few compiler authors having to semi-successfully deal with it. That may be stressing, assuming that you care about such things as your brain child being an improvement (not a regression) on what came before.




Well thank god they're software engineers and not butterflies!

https://ronmayhewphotography.com/2020/02/06/if-a-butterfly-f...


You mean like requiring functions instead of basic blocks in a compiler target?


Do you have any more information on that? What's the issue and what was the reasoning behind that choice?




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