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If you have a native decoder you don't need to run WASM. It's literally in the abstract.

• Someone 1y ago
  But given a file in this format, you cannot know whether your native decoder can read it without running WASM; the file you read may use a feature that was invented after your library was written.
  • ko27 1y ago
    Of course you can, you can literally read the version from the file itself.
  • Certhas 1y ago
    As others said: you can. And what's the alternative? Not being able to read the data or never being able to evolve the encoding.