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Comment by BoumTAC | Hacker News Reader

Why does the testimonial contains only Chinese company?

I think it's really great but it would be better to have company from all around the world

The Twitch player is written in WASM, but I don't think we're a W3C member.

That struck me as wierd too, then it got me thinking about the 'great wall' and China's ability to insert tracking ( or other ) JavaScript into a user's session... and then how that's going to be different now in the age of web assembly... I can imagine it would make obfuscation of intent easier for one thing.

I'm not from China, from my perspective, those companies are from around the world.

...really? From my perspective, it's a bunch of companies that are known only for operating within China (360 / Alibaba / Baidu / Tencent), two hardware companies best known for being Chinese (Huawei / Xiaomi), and one I've never heard of (agora.io). Over half of the testimonials are in Chinese.

I'm curious too - was there really no non-Chinese company that would endorse this?

Well, apparently this was a real question.

W3C members are visible here: https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List

Those are the members that decided that WebAssembly is now an official web standard, not the testimonials.

I'm investigating more about the voting system here, https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/ERB.html.

The voting system is roughly: any paying member company can submit a "formal objection", which will be considered by W3C management ("on behalf of" Tim Berners-Lee). If upheld by management then the recommendation doesn't go forward. (This is very rare; I don't know of any instances off the top of my head.)

Maybe they're just the earliest adopters.

Would I be reading this if it was only American companies?

America is not China.

Are you sure?

For instance, they are two countries, whose names end with the letter "A"... dare I continue?

Can you please cut out the lower/boring segment of trolling? (like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21804133)

Shocked by the downvotes, to be honest.

No, probably not.

I think it's just a little shocking as it kind of makes it seem like nobody outside of China supports WebAssembly.

I think having a wide variety of companies from open source "pro web" to Google and Alibaba might be better then having a pile of extremely wealthy firewall supporting companies.

No, because several different American companies would represent several differing viewpoints.

A bunch of Chinese companies is essentially the viewpoint of the current dictator of China, should he choose to weigh in.

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