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		gpderetta on June 29, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SICP Goodness – Why you don't need looping constru... yes, and they are no more. Turns out that general purpose ISAs beat application specific ISAs every time.

oblio on June 29, 2018 [–]

Is it "application specific" if at a certain point in the future 60%+ of all applications are written in WebAssembly?

Java never got there.

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