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What you call a "side-effect" can quickly turn into the main reason for using it. Companies can develop big, bulky WASM-only framework with graphic primitives

What you call a "side-effect" can quickly turn into the main reason for using it. Companies can develop big, bulky WASM-only framework with graphic primitives & so on, very much like Java applets, and effectively kill the openness of the web standards. As an end-user there's no way to avoid loading hundreds of MB of WAMS every day, contrarily to desktop software installation.

baq 8y ago
the same is true about js really.
Vinnl 8y ago
Sure, it can become the main reason for people to start using it. It's disingenuous to claim that that is Mozilla's goal, though. (Apart from that I doubt that it will result in a significantly worse web than what we have today, but we'll see.)