> If you don't do frontend stuff, you don't have to use WASM, you know? You could just go native binary in the first place especially as modern languages have g

> If you don't do frontend stuff, you don't have to use WASM, you know? You could just go native binary in the first place especially as modern languages have great cross-compilation support. - Cross-compiling is perhaps easier these days, but it's still a pain to set up and takes time to compile - WASM has compelling sandboxing abilities, I can see myself choosing a slower sandboxed client tool vs native binary, in particular to try out new stuff