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WebAssembly and PNaCL always seemed like a hack. A very elegant thought-out hack, but still a hack. It required a 64 bit OS but could only ever operate in 32 bit space.

Should have been dead on arrival because of that fact alone. For something that was trying to bring C/C++ and video games into a browser setting a 4GB max on memory should have been a non-starter.

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WebAssembly is unrelated to PNaCl and has no limitations on the bit width of the host OS or the running program. PNaCl has those limitations because of how its sandbox works, but WebAssembly does not use a sandbox at all- it uses Javascript's security model instead.

(The WebAssembly MVP only supports the wasm32 target, but wasm64 is also planned.)

I'm afraid pretty much every part in the pipeline of getting websites to your computer and shown on screen is a big giant hack of which it's a wonder that it even works at all, most of the time.

s/getting websites to //

HAHA, you're correct

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