• ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
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    3 months ago

    Honestly I’m better off this way, personally. At least javascript is text, and very often readable after pretty printing and debuggabke as a user, I’m not comfortable with loading basically opaque binaries for websites.

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      3 months ago

      Isn’t production JavaScript usually minified/obfuscated to make it hard to read?

      Also wasm is actually bytecode, which I believe has a 1:1 conversion into a text-based format called wat.

      I agree with your main point though, it’s kinda creepy when you realise just how much we are expected to allow other people’s code to run on our machines.

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        3 months ago

        Isn’t production JavaScript usually minified/obfuscated to make it hard to read?

        Somewhat, but often it’s still readable. Or maybe I just don’t look at it often enough to notice the worse cases…

        Also wasm is actually bytecode, which I believe has a 1:1 conversion into a text-based format called wat.

        That’s good to be aware of, thanks!