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> webassembly. is basically a better way to do ASM.js . How many Python,Haskell,Livescript have been built on top of ASM.js ? Do you really believe you can ma
by camus2 10y ago
> webassembly.
is basically a better way to do ASM.js . How many Python,Haskell,Livescript have been built on top of ASM.js ?
Do you really believe you can make your users download 10s of megabytes of binaries each time they visit a website just to bootstrap a language? And i'm not even talking about the runtime...
Right now, the only viable languages for webassembly are the ones that don't use garbage collection and have a limited runtime, Rust,C and C++ .
- douche 10y agoWe make our users download tens of megabytes of shitty unoptimized JS for tracking, ad networks, unoptimized images, autoplaying videos, and so on and so forth now.
- Enginerd3 10y agoThose aren't necessary for the site to function so you can use some sort of content blocker and still access the material. You're talking about downloading megabytes of data just to go through the door for your website.