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Unfortunately, he is quite adamantly not a fan of WASM.
by AshleyGrant 7y ago
Unfortunately, he is quite adamantly not a fan of WASM.
- cm2187 7y agoWhy is he not?
- symlinkk 7y agoOnly thing I could find of him mentioning WebAssembly was here at 19:45: https://youtu.be/MxB0ldQfvT4?t=1185 https://youtu.be/MxB0ldQfvT4?t=1185 In that video he says that it’s not a suitable target for TypeScript to compile to because WebAssembly doesn’t have a garbage collector. They’d have to basically implement an entire JavaScript engine in WebAssembly which would be pointless. He gives some examples of things it could be good for, which are all CPU intensive things like image processing and video games, but he doesn’t seem to think it’s really suitable for making normal web apps.