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What complexity? It's just a new frontend for the complex tiered interpreter-and-JIT-compiler monstrosities that JS engines have.

A massively simpler frontend than JS itself — it's closer to, well, assembly :) while JS is a dynamic language.

What we get in return is very very close to native execution speed for all the performance-sensitive things you might want to run on a computer — game engines, crypto, compression, codecs, etc. — in a sandboxed and portable way. One executable for everything from the typical Windows/amd64 desktop to your NetBSD/mips toaster, potentially.




It's quite a bit more than a frontend, but I agree it isn't as complex as the JS engine itself. For comparison, this is the JSC wasm implementation: https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/tree/master/Source/JavaScri...




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