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Hopefully this will make WASM more popular. I tried to get into it but lack of documentation was already one reason to not invest too much; speed concerns menti
by shevy-java 11mo ago
Hopefully this will make WASM more popular. I tried to get into it
but lack of documentation was already one reason to not invest too
much; speed concerns mentioned by other bloggers also amplified this
issue recently. For some reason WebAssembly is not really "breaking
through" right now. Perhaps it is inertia, perhaps another reason.
- whizzter 11mo agoWasm is used in a lot of nooks and crannies, apart from games, Figma already uses it in the core and Wasm-GC has just started to become viable so we will se a lot of server-side languages get better web support. Using Wasm as an end-all system was never the main intention even if we're heading that way now thanks to all the work people has put in. I'd say that it's probably used where it's made sense so far.
- Ray20 11mo agoI hope so too. Websites that load runtimes for various programming languages are too slim; they need to load the entire operating system, otherwise why do we need all these powerful home computers?.
- charcircuit 11mo agoThere's already a problem of downloading 10s of megabytes of web assembly. We don't need to download gigabytes for a single page.
- cogman10 11mo agoYes, but then how else could I run a docker container in the browser?