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Effect of WASM in electron apps?
i always hated electron apps, concept of a chrome for every desktop app that resource hogging crap. but today it hit now that there is new bubble of Webassembly does it make some what desirable or worse companies shipping games in electron . how much performance difference (only intense cpu stuff would be written in WASM and since most of component of electron is same and it runs in same VM made for) does it make for normal application. i did not find articles about it. please enlighten me
- TomMarius 9y agoElectron will probably eventually die and a light WAsm runtime with canvas/WebGL support will be used instead.
- dukeflukem 9y agoAnd then we've then reinvented Java!
- TomMarius 9y agoYes, but with better security model and a buy-in from all major companies, basically what both CLR and JVM strived to but have failed to achieve.
- dukeflukem 9y agoCan you elaborate on the security model?
- neilsimp1 9y agoIt would be interesting to see if popular Electron apps like VSCode or Atom start to re-write performance-critical parts in wasm.