*engineers I work with are telling me that some of you are going to argue that types don’t exist in real javascript and that web assembly isn’t assembly
Well it's bytecode, so if you consider java or dot net bytecode assembly then it's assembly, if not then not. If we want to be pedantic, assembly is usually defined as being close to the architecture machine code, which web assembly is not.
Yeah, I fell into that trap, but it's a holiday here.
I'm on holiday so I'll have a go and join the pedantic train. It's not as you say close to the hardware so it's intermediate code. And nobody argues .Net IL is assembly.
A lot of people get confused by assembly in WASM unfortunately, which leads them to claim that it is performant and if it's not, then fixing it is a trivial exercise of just making a fast WASM JIT compiler. Where did I hear this before?
They really should have gone for JSVM IR or something, but that would sell it to no one.
