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The point isn’t to run client code in the server and server code on the client. The point is to allow JavaScript to be able to use excellent C++/Rust code in a
by steego 6y ago
The point isn’t to run client code in the server and server code on the client.
The point is to allow JavaScript to be able to use excellent C++/Rust code in a sandboxed environment when it makes sense.
Embedding SQLite is a perfect example.
- CyberRabbi 6y ago> The point is to allow JavaScript to be able to use excellent C++/Rust code in a sandboxed environment when it makes sense. That seems useful for the client side but you don’t need webassembly to do that on the server-side. E.g. https://github.com/mapbox/node-sqlite3 https://github.com/mapbox/node-sqlite3