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> This is actually pretty useful, but sort of sad it drags the whole go ecosystem with it (who knows what go will look like in 20 years and if this app will still compile and work).

This is something which the CS community needs to solve, imho. I.e. provide an executable language with a formal specification that is guaranteed to be available indefinitely. And to make this more useful, other programming languages should provide back-ends targeting this language.



For better and worse, isn't that what WASM is/has become/will become?




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