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But you can already do this with DLLs or with SOs files. You can keep your network logic for example inside another module (perhaps the host app) and then load

But you can already do this with DLLs or with SOs files. You can keep your network logic for example inside another module (perhaps the host app) and then load the logic that acts on the received data as a dll. Process separation and IPC natively using a library such as Qt is literally a few hundred lines of code.

emteycz 5y ago
I can't take a DLL and expect it to work on Linux/Mac. Wasm allows free sharing of portable binaries - with cross-language interop.
- ensiferum 5y ago
  But that's sort of moving the goal posts now. Original claim for WASM was that it allows hot reloading. Which is a thing you can do with DLLs just fine.
  - emteycz 5y ago
    No, the original claim of Wasm definitely isn't only one side point about development. The original claim of Wasm is that all of these features are packaged in a well thought out whole + the success of this platform (thanks to browsers mostly) is what's so interesting about it.
    - ensiferum 5y ago
      No, not original Claim about WASM but your original Claim that about hot reloading and WASM. "Hot reloading is a good example." Again. You don't need WASM for hot reloading.
      - emteycz 5y ago
        "A good example". That really doesn't mean it's "the only" example. BTW not my words.
- carlos22 5y ago
  It is also hard to contain the DLL/SO, every system has different mechanisms to ensure it can not access 'everything'. Wasm, as build for the browser, has it in its DNA.