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> but WASM has none of the web APIs so you need to lean on JS to do UI or local storage, etc. Yeah, haha I am eagerly waiting on these additions. I'm following
by apatheticonion 3y ago
> but WASM has none of the web APIs so you need to lean on JS to do UI or local storage, etc.
Yeah, haha I am eagerly waiting on these additions. I'm following the spec quite closely and would love it if one day an index.wasm could replace index.html as a web application entry point.
> I find WebAssembly a fairly odd duck though and highly disappointing.
100% agree. It was introduced about 8 years ago and we still can't use it to make a div appear (without heavy JS thunking). The consortium is discussing how to use web assembly in serverless functions and to replace docker - meanwhile in the web world, it's essentially a faster Web Worker.
But hey, I'm still hopeful