<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>duckfruit</author><text>I want to believe...
I always thought WebAssembly had a lot of potential, however, in practice it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to have turned out that way.&lt;p&gt;I remember the first Unity demos appearing on these orange pages at least 4 or 5 years ago, and promptly blowing me away. But, after an eternity in JavaScript years, I still dont know what the killer app is, technically or business wise. (Side note - I encourage people to prove me wrong, in fact I&amp;#x27;d love to be! Thats whats so engaging about discussions here. I&amp;#x27;d love to see examples of what WebAssembly makes possible that wouldn&amp;#x27;t exist without it.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>gpm</author><text>Web Assembly&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s interesting in a bunch of ways, and I think it might end up having a wider impact than anyone has really realized yet.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s an ISA that looks set to be adopted in a pretty wide range of applications, web browsers, sandboxed and cross platform applications, embedded (into other programs) scripting, cryptocurrencies, and so on.&lt;p&gt;It looks like it&amp;#x27;s going to enable a wider variety of languages on the web, many more performant than the current ones. That&amp;#x27;s interesting on it&amp;#x27;s own, but not the main reason why I think the technology is interesting.&lt;p&gt;Both mobile devices, and crypto currencies, are places where hardware acceleration is a thing. If this is going to be a popular ISA in both of those, might we get chips whose native ISA is web assembly? Once we have hardware acceleration, do we see wasm chips running as CPUs someday in the not too distant future (CPU with an emphasis on Central)?&lt;p&gt;A lot of people seem excited about the potential for risc-v, and arm is gaining momentum against x86 to some extent, but to me wasm actually seems best placed to takeover as the dominant ISA.&lt;p&gt;Anyways, I doubt that thinking about this is going to have much direct impact on my life... this isn&amp;#x27;t something I feel any need to help along (or a change I feel the need to try and resist). It&amp;#x27;s just a technology that I think will be interesting to watch as the future unfolds.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your &apos;to watch&apos; list?</title><text>For me a couple of interesting technology products that help me in my day-to-day job&lt;p&gt;1. Hasura
2. Strapi
3. Forest Admin (super interesting although I cannot ever get it to connect to a hasura backend on Heroku ¯\_(ツ)_&amp;#x2F;¯
4. Integromat
5. Appgyver&lt;p&gt;There are many others that I have my eye on such as NodeRed[6], but have yet to use. I do realise that these are all low-code related, however, I would be super interested in being made aware of cool other cool &amp;amp; upcoming tech that is making waves.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s on your &amp;#x27;to watch&amp;#x27; list?&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hasura.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hasura.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;strapi.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;strapi.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.forestadmin.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.forestadmin.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[4]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.appgyver.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.appgyver.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[5]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.integromat.com&amp;#x2F;en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.integromat.com&amp;#x2F;en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[6]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nodered.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nodered.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>als0</author><text>Cautionary tale: we’ve been here before with JVM CPUs like Jazelle. They didn’t take over the world.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gpm</author><text>Web Assembly&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s interesting in a bunch of ways, and I think it might end up having a wider impact than anyone has really realized yet.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s an ISA that looks set to be adopted in a pretty wide range of applications, web browsers, sandboxed and cross platform applications, embedded (into other programs) scripting, cryptocurrencies, and so on.&lt;p&gt;It looks like it&amp;#x27;s going to enable a wider variety of languages on the web, many more performant than the current ones. That&amp;#x27;s interesting on it&amp;#x27;s own, but not the main reason why I think the technology is interesting.&lt;p&gt;Both mobile devices, and crypto currencies, are places where hardware acceleration is a thing. If this is going to be a popular ISA in both of those, might we get chips whose native ISA is web assembly? Once we have hardware acceleration, do we see wasm chips running as CPUs someday in the not too distant future (CPU with an emphasis on Central)?&lt;p&gt;A lot of people seem excited about the potential for risc-v, and arm is gaining momentum against x86 to some extent, but to me wasm actually seems best placed to takeover as the dominant ISA.&lt;p&gt;Anyways, I doubt that thinking about this is going to have much direct impact on my life... this isn&amp;#x27;t something I feel any need to help along (or a change I feel the need to try and resist). It&amp;#x27;s just a technology that I think will be interesting to watch as the future unfolds.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your &apos;to watch&apos; list?</title><text>For me a couple of interesting technology products that help me in my day-to-day job&lt;p&gt;1. Hasura
2. Strapi
3. Forest Admin (super interesting although I cannot ever get it to connect to a hasura backend on Heroku ¯\_(ツ)_&amp;#x2F;¯
4. Integromat
5. Appgyver&lt;p&gt;There are many others that I have my eye on such as NodeRed[6], but have yet to use. I do realise that these are all low-code related, however, I would be super interested in being made aware of cool other cool &amp;amp; upcoming tech that is making waves.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s on your &amp;#x27;to watch&amp;#x27; list?&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hasura.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hasura.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;strapi.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;strapi.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.forestadmin.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.forestadmin.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[4]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.appgyver.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.appgyver.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[5]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.integromat.com&amp;#x2F;en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.integromat.com&amp;#x2F;en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[6]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nodered.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nodered.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></story>