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All WebAssembly does is further obfuscate the code that runs in your browser. Have you ever tried to reverse-engineer Gmail or any modern web app? It's already
by tinco 10y ago
All WebAssembly does is further obfuscate the code that runs in your browser. Have you ever tried to reverse-engineer Gmail or any modern web app? It's already basically impossible.
A part of the web has simply become an application distribution system. That's not necessarily a bad thing, many other important websites are still very much open and accessible, like Wikipedia for example.
The web just became bigger than it was before 2001.
- cyborgx7 10y agoThis is a further step in the reduction of user control, the thing that I think made the web so successful in the first place. I suspect it will kill the web, but it will at least make it unacceptable for me. I would like to find and support the replacement as soon as possible.
- pjmlp 10y agoThe user never was in control, given that the majority of the logic runs on a server that the user never sees or has access to.