PJpjmlp·May 28, 2020
Text metrics, the graphics engine implemented on top of WebGL/WebGPU does it itself.
Weak references are coming, https://github.com/tc39/proposal-weakrefs
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5 sourcesThere's also the WeakRef proposal: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-weakrefs
In How to detect if an object has been garbage collected in JavaScriptThis is indeed a problem for Wasm/JS integration. The JS WeakRef proposal[1] will address it for many use cases, and the WebAssembly GC proposal[2], combined with JS Typed Objects[3] will address many others. Even before those features will be available, I'd expect the community to iterate on patterns to make APIs nicer.
[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-weakrefs
[2] https://github.com/WebAssembly/meetings/blob/master/2018/pre...
[3] https://github.com/tschneidereit/typed-objects-explainer
In Hello wasm-packI'm not gonna bother quoting you to fisk you. Your approach towards my evidence is weak overall. I'm gonna throw more evidence at you.
Miller and Dean Tribble have been working on WeakRefs lately: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-weakrefs
Crockford's personal site no longer has the original JSON description, and neither does the Wayback Machine, but his site does still have a section on E: http://www.crockford.com/
In this talk [0], Crockford discusses the origin of JSON. He mentions working with Chip Morningstar (this guy http://habitatchronicles.com/2017/05/what-are-capabilities/) and has oblique references to his prior work. He doesn't bother to explain what he was doing during the 90s here, and at this point social interaction becomes required to learn more.
'hammering the ES peg in the E hole' is wrong. They're hammering the E peg in
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to the ES hole. Not all of us believe in this approach; some of us think that JS is irredeemable and that we should keep iterating with languages like Pony and Monte which expand on the original E concepts.
Like I said, kicking and screaming. I don't know why you all kick and scream so much, but you do.
[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C-JoyNuQJs
webassembly gains lua.vm.js nothing: it's just a bytecode form of asm.js
The big thing lua.vm.js needs is weakrefs https://github.com/tc39/proposal-weakrefs
In The Lua VM, on the Web