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>> I'm still wondering why webassembly is not used more. Because it doesn't support direct DOM access(thus is slower than JS and more mem hungry) and lacks GC
by thefounder 7y ago
>> I'm still wondering why webassembly is not used more.
Because it doesn't support direct DOM access(thus is slower than JS and more mem hungry) and lacks GC so many languages (i.e php, ruby, python etc) don't run (at all or just not efficiently) in the browser.