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> Answering my own question, a little, I use figma.com a lot. But the potential seems so great, and the available PWAs so poor.... It's just that WebAssembly,
by RReverser 6y ago
> Answering my own question, a little, I use figma.com a lot. But the potential seems so great, and the available PWAs so poor....
It's just that WebAssembly, like any new technology, can and usually is used in very specific paths that require it.
As a result, it's true that there is not that many full WebAssembly-powered PWAs, although the ones that are, like Figma you already mentioned or Google Earth or various Blazor-powered apps already speak for themselves.
However, there is even more apps and websites out there that use Wasm either directly or via library dependencies for calculations, graphics or even things like hyphenation - in my research https://github.com/mnater/Hyphenopoly https://github.com/mnater/Hyphenopoly was one of the most popular Wasm-powered libs used across a bunch of CMS and blog platforms - probably the last place you would expect to find WebAssembly in, and yet...