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Feels like WASM is hitting an inflection point this year. After nearly a decade of hearing "someday", that day is finally here.
by ramesh31 4y ago
Feels like WASM is hitting an inflection point this year. After nearly a decade of hearing "someday", that day is finally here.
- MuffinFlavored 4y agoI wonder what the catalyst finally is/was to cause such an acceleration
- ilyt 4y agoCompound interest. Tools that make making other tools easier. Once programming languages started having WASM compile target a great many things became easier
- sgbeal 4y ago> I wonder what the catalyst finally is/was to cause such an acceleration IMO, all that was missing was a truly compelling use case. The combination of the ubiquitous sqlite with non-trivially-sized persistent storage gives us that use case.
- sgbeal 4y ago> Feels like WASM is hitting an inflection point this year. After nearly a decade of hearing "someday", that day is finally here. At the start of this development effort (April, IIRC (2022)) we (in the sqlite project) had only ever heard of wasm but hadn't paid any attention to it. Within just a few days of starting this project, we were fully convinced that the combination of sqlite and OPFS will be one of the Next Big Things for web app development. As the project's "JS/WASM Guy" i'm exceedingly excited to see what people do with this and what improvements we'll make based on user feedback. (It's long been my experience that the most interesting feature suggestions come from users.)