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It's easy to overlook bugs in a tracker the size of Chromium's--even important ones. Thanks for raising the issue again.

We'll start tackling GC as soon as we finish the MVP [0]. No timeline yet, but we consider it essential to the high level goal of integrating well into the existing platform.

[0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md

It's possible to eschew the DOM even today with just JavaScript & <canvas> [0]! While this would be possible with wasm & WebGL as well, we're working to build something that integrates well into the open web platform. Check out #3 from our high-level goals [1].

[0]: https://github.com/Flipboard/react-canvas [1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/HighLevelG...

Things are definitely picking up speed!

There are already a bunch of awesome community implementations of the MVP WebAssembly spec [0][1][2]. Meanwhile, the V8 [3], SpiderMonkey [4], Chakra [5], and JSC [6] teams have all started work on implementing wasm in actual browser engines.

We've still got a long ways to go, but it's much nearer than 10+ years!

[0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasm-jit-prototype [1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasmint [2]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasm-aot-prototype [3]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/v8-native-prototype [4]: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/ca086f9ef8bc/js/s... [5]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mikeholman/archive/2015/06/17/workin... [6]: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146064

(Disclaimer: I'm a Google Chrome PM contributing to the WebAssembly project)

We're working hard to make sure that WebAssembly is a first-class citizen in the open web platform in ways that other native execution environments didn't accomplish.

For example, it's a goal to have WebAssembly modules interopt with the ES6 module system, and as soon as GC is supported, you'll be able to access the DOM and the JavaScript context in WebAssembly [0]. Both of these are huge steps towards ensuring that wasm plays well with everything that's great about the web today.

[0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/Web.md

(Disclaimer: I'm a Google Chrome PM contributing to the WebAssembly project)

It's definitely a goal to make sure that wasm is as readable as possible. The binary format will be able to be "pretty-printed" into a textual format [0]. We haven't finalized the exact format yet, but it will be much more readable than current asm.js javascript [1].

[0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/TextFormat... [1]: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/643828456631857152

(Disclaimer: I'm a Google Chrome PM contributing to the WebAssembly project)

There's no question that Solr and ElasticSearch have more capability than PostgreSQL alone, but you'd be surprised at what Postgres can do!

It's certainly more than just full text search. Check out this article [1] that talks about Postgres' support for stemming, ranking / boost, multiple languages, fuzzy search, and accent support.

[1] http://blog.lostpropertyhq.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-...

If you click through to a digital work: http://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.A.1/0001?si... And then click on the shopping cart, it takes you to a page which talks about the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license... not sure how this works with the Vatican's own copyright.

I use LastPass every day now. Everything about it makes sense (including git versioning for all your passwords). Thanks!

He addresses the source of the title in a footnote [1]. It comes directly from one of the HN comments on his last post.

[1]: http://www.marco.org/2014/03/16/and#fn:pnIY0sNQi1

Does anyone know of an alternative for iOS games?

When I saw the original press release earlier today, I thought the company name was a typo.

It's clear now that AT&T is making a political statement instead of announcing a premeditated expansion plan. Regardless, this seems like one of the worst possible ways to draw attention to purported "special incentives" that the city of Austin is granting Google. There is a large chance that AT&T won't come through on the plan at all--and when all this has blown over, AT&T is much more likely to be remembered for reneging on their plan than for being a proponent of fair regulatory laws.

Github amazes me all the time with the sheer number of features they ship over a given time period. Major props! The STL rendering is an awesome feature.