On: The Bytecode Alliance: Building a secure, composable future for WebAssembly

[weberc2]

It matters a whole lot. There's lots of code written in various languages and it's often prohibitive to use it in your own project because making the languages speak with each other (especially if you have performance concerns) is a lot of work. I don't expect WASM to make this trivial, but to say that it doesn't matter is patently wrong.

[gridlockd → weberc2]

I think the point is that your laundry list of features in your language of choice does not really matter when it comes to adoption.

For instance, memory safety does not really matter so much that people would stop using unsafe languages.

[zzzcpan → weberc2]

Why high level languages should be able to easily speak with each other? Wouldn't this defeat the purpose of having more than one language, since they would be effectively identical?