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Praise the lord, that was sooner than I expected. Next up: the DOM. Then there will be peace on Earth.

Does anyone know when all this started? I ask because only 83 days ago Brendan was on here telling us pretty emphatically that this was a bad idea and would never happen.

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Please cite my post from 83 days ago. I think you're misreading it (perhaps "bytecode" is overloaded). I have good reason to, since I was in on wasm from the start, which was longer ago than 83 days.

I didn't intend to ruffle anyone's feathers with that comment. Yes I suppose I am misreading it, but I don't think I can be blamed for walking away from that exchange thinking transpilation to JS was the last word on the subject.

Anyway great work man. It's a happy day.

Thanks.

Here's Tim Sweeney on diff between "bytecode" and wasm:

https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/611237145857138688

Hi Brendan, just hopping on the end of this thread to tell you that I think it was just disgusting the way that you were boycotted for your donation. It seemed really hypocritical for them to mistreat you for your opinions.

Maybe we won in the end. If Brendan was spending all his time doing CEO type stuff, he'd be spending less time giving us awesomeness like this.

This was a group effort and I am last, not first. Mainly I played prophet, peace-maker, coach, bartender.

Not quite the Tetralogy of Tony Stark (genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist) but I'll take it! ;-)

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