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You don't need WASM to deploy compiled binaries to a web server, so I don't understand the excitement. It may be convenient for the provider (CloudFlare), but n
by alexmingoia 8y ago
You don't need WASM to deploy compiled binaries to a web server, so I don't understand the excitement. It may be convenient for the provider (CloudFlare), but not necessarily for the customer. Performance will be better without WASM and it's an additional step in the build pipeline, compared with CloudFlare supporting any x86 binary.
WASM's purpose is to compile languages to run in a web browser. A CloudFlare "worker" is a web server that runs at a data center close to the user.
- kwindla 8y agoIt's useful to be able to write code that runs on your server, and in the browser, and in an "edge" thingy too (for some definition of "edge"). x86 binaries aren't going to be able to do that.