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Is import maps considered an accepted proposal [1]? What's the point of implementing APIs like WebGPU and localstorage in a non-browser environment? I get WHAT
by timdaub 5y ago
Is import maps considered an accepted proposal [1]?
What's the point of implementing APIs like WebGPU and localstorage in a non-browser environment? I get WHATWG streams, esm, fetch and WebCrypro though.
- 1: https://github.com/WICG/import-maps https://github.com/WICG/import-maps
- vorticalbox 5y agoLocal storage let's you save state across process restarts and session storage let's you share data across worker threads You could save the state of a discord bot across restarts for example.
- norman784 5y agoAbout webgpu > The WebGPU API gives developers a low level, high performance, cross architecture way to program GPU hardware from JavaScript. > GPUs allow programmers to make some numerical algorithms highly parallel. This is useful beyond rendering graphics and games. Effective use of GPUs in Machine Learning has enabled more complex neural networks - https://deno.com/blog/v1.8#experimental-support-for-the-webgpu-api https://deno.com/blog/v1.8#experimental-support-for-the-webg...
- tehbeard 5y agoImplementing WebGPU allows you to make use of GPU resources on the server (from rendering to more compute focused) Localstorage is admittedly a bit niche, but works well as a way to bypass the need to get generic read/write permissions for the filesystem for a config file. (Deno implements a permission model similar to the web where you start with nothing and must request / have pre-granted access to resources like files/network/env/subprocess, and this access can be granular to specific files/directories/host+port combos)