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• rektide 6y ago
  I sense great fear within you. "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." Yes, these capabilities bring will inevitably bring about some down-side, some negatives. But they are 100000% worth it. Endless cool things will spring from this that would be impossible any other way. Give people power. Give people capabilities. Don't run, don't hide, don't put your head in the sand. Do it. Be brave. Enable better worlds to come.
  • bzb6 6y ago
    I don’t want the web doing cool things. I want the web to be fast, boring, and private. Leave the cool things to native apps.
    • rektide 6y ago
      It sucks, this tension of people that insist the web be the one thing they want, that anyone wanting anything else be unable to get it. I don't know how to deal with conservatives. Never have.
  • sumtechguy 6y ago
    On the surface it sounds like 'hmm sure why not' then you stop and think about it. It is a security/privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Much like ActiveX and java apps were. I suspect webassembly will end up in the same place. Frankly it will be used by some small segment of web applications that are cool like you say. At best I fear the majority of the use would be just to fingerprint us more to show us more soap/shoes/drugs to buy. At worst it would end up being a never ending pit of security vulins. We have tried this sort of tech before it worked badly in the end. So a bit of caution is not unwarranted.