Comment by n42
You seem to frequently appear in threads involving WebAssembly. Each time you do, I see you point out how bytecode VMs have been done before. And, every time, it doesn’t contribute anything interesting to the conversation.
I don’t mean this in a hostile way, however, it has become frustrating finding this predictable and low effort comment from you every time I open an HN thread on WebAssembly — and, frankly, I’ve begun collapsing comments whenever I see your username.
Every iteration on the concept brings different approaches and tradeoffs made from lessons learned from previous attempts. This is just how engineering, and our industry, works.
I don’t mean disrespect. I assume you are probably speaking from a place of experience. I would be so much more interested hearing your thoughts on the minutiae than basic pattern recognition.
I recommend not engaging. I've tried once or twice, and when I shared a concrete example[0] of a real problem wasm solves for me that I'm not aware of another way to do, pjmlp just stopped responding. I'm not sure what their motivations are but it's too bad they choose to distract from someone's awesome project the person has spent years working on.
[0]: https://github.com/lastlogin-net/decent-auth