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Why? WASM fundamentally changes nothing about what web sites can do or how they do it. This article would make more sense if it were about Canvas, SVG, or any
by colanderman 8y ago
Why? WASM fundamentally changes nothing about what web sites can do or how they do it.
This article would make more sense if it were about Canvas, SVG, or any of the other JavaScript-accessible media elements which were added to enable Flash-like behavior from JavaScript. Those were game-changers.
Claiming WASM makes the web more Flash-like is like claiming ES 6 makes the web more Flash-like that ES 5. It doesn't. The existence of DOM scripting and scriptable media elements does, and WASM doesn't change this. Claiming it does is just sensationalism.