[Cialug] WASM

[jim kraai]

need exponentially more obfuscation of what's going on on web sites you
visit?  ask 'em to use WASM!
https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2018/10/dark-side-webassembly/

need exponentially more difficulty debugging the web site you're
developing?  use WASM!
https://thenewstack.io/the-pain-of-debugging-webassembly/
<https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2018/10/dark-side-webassembly/>

this class of things might be a small help
https://v8.dev/blog/wasm-decompile

it's just another grand canyon in the web security game of whack-a-mole, i
suppose

/me ain't gonna touch that raw looking "real" languages nerve

-jim


On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 7:43 AM L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Aug 2020, Andrew Denner wrote:
>
> > Sorry, I am not following? Which thread are you talking about?
> >
> Noticed it from Jeff in the FF80/eBay thread, ..
>
> =====================
>
> Just wait until WASM really takes off. I'm not really a web developer, but
> I've been itching to try compiling Go into WASM and playing around with
> that. One of the many things that's held up my web development is
> JavaScript. I just can't stand it. Makes my skin crawl. Now that WASM is
> here and I can do web stuff in a "real" language I'll have to give it a
> try. So many things though that I want to get to first.
>
> Jeff
>
> ================
>
> "WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a
> stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation
> target for programming languages..."
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