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Figma uses Emscripten which is technically not Webassembly (to my knowledge)
by alaaf 7y ago
Figma uses Emscripten which is technically not Webassembly (to my knowledge)
- echeese 7y agoEmscripten has been able to compile to WASM since before WASM was implemented in browsers. It became the default output earlier this year.
- azakai 7y agoSome more detail: Emscripten has defaulted to emit wasm even earlier, in May 2018. The change this year was to switch how that wasm is emitted, from the old fastcomp+asm2wasm path to the new LLVM wasm backend.
- echeese 7y agoI was actually thinking about the switch from asm.js to WASM (v1.38.1) but apparently that was last year. Whoops!
- timClicks 7y agoEmscripten has a WASM backend, it was originally JavaScript only.