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		artfulhippo on Sept 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lumen: An alternative BEAM implementation, designe... This is some of the best news this summer! Anyone that wants to reduce the influence that Google and Facebook have on the Web should look into the Erlang/Elixir ecosystem.

moosingin3space on Sept 1, 2019 [–]

I'm excited about this project too, but how does it "reduce the influence that Google and Facebook have on the Web"? It seems pretty orthogonal if you ask me.

bcardarella on Sept 2, 2019 | [–]

Considering how much sway Google has over the WASM spec group I would say that Google still has considerable influence upon this project.

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