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But it is only a matter of time. Once webassembly achieves near feature parity with the native versions, you bet Adobe will switch users to the webassembly vers
by sah2ed 7y ago
But it is only a matter of time. Once webassembly achieves near feature parity with the native versions, you bet Adobe will switch users to the webassembly version.
From Adobe's perspective, it offers a lot of benefits:
- they don't have maintain build farms or pay a CDN to host GBs of binaries of native installers (for different OSes);
- users will always be on the latest (read: most secure) version since there is nothing to install or nag the user to check for updates/apply security patches;
- browser-dependence implies near-persistent Internet access, making license management/enforcement a whole lot easier;
- they can upsell you on cloud storage so that all your assets are available from any web browser.
- sjy 7y agoIf the user has to download the whole webassembly binary at the beginning of every session, it seems unlikely that Adobe would save money on CDNs.