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This is beautifully said and absolutely true. The HTML/js/css platform is truly incredible. Looking forward to seeing how people can use WASM in incredible ways
by beebmam 4y ago
This is beautifully said and absolutely true. The HTML/js/css platform is truly incredible. Looking forward to seeing how people can use WASM in incredible ways!
- samwillis 4y agoAbsolutely, and like all new things some of the original uses will not work out but what it brings to the table is awesome. (I'm unconvinced by trying to "speed up" normal web apps with it) The two places I'm most excited about it is using it in combination with WebGPU for games/engineering/ai/science, and with the "origin privet file system" enabling client side databases such as SQLite and DuckDB. I think it's the final peace of the jigsaw to make PWAs take off like a rocket. Honestly, PWAs are the true future of the web, the perfect extension of its vision.
- tracker1 4y agoI have somewhat mixed feelings on WASM... you can't "peak" into it nearly as much as JS... but even JS has gone past the point of being really decipherable by humans in production sites for a while. I know there's some boundary issues with performance and hope that it can be worked out in a meaningful/reasonable way. I think WASM gets much more interesting in server hosted platform environments. You get largely portable code that can run wherever (x86, arm, risc-v, etc) and is in a secure environment, read-only into itself.