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What problem is this possibly solving? Why wouldn't you just compile your Rust/Go to a native binary?

• thefounder 8y ago
  A portable binary like wasm makes deployment easier and potentially makes it more secure/easier to sandbox.
  • richardwhiuk 8y ago
    Makes deployment harder surely? Now you need to both ship the wasm runner and the compiled code of the executable?
    • amelius 8y ago
      You can still ship your native code. So you have two options instead of one.
    • thefounder 8y ago
      The host is supposed to support wasm and most hosts will do.
      • mr_toad 8y ago
        With about 50% of corporate desktops still using Windows 7 with IE11 as the default browser - it’s going to take a while before wasm is truely ubiquitous.
        • maxgraey 8y ago
          That's not true: https://bit.ly/2GMbAN3 https://bit.ly/2GMbAN3
    • int_19h 8y ago
      Projects like this one are the first step towards native wasm support on OS level across major platforms. It'll happen, the only question is how soon.
• rkangel 8y ago
  You can, if you've written it in Rust/Go. If you write in a another language, then you don't have to have a compiler (or VM) that supports multiple platforms, you just compile to WASM, and this would sort it out.