[jwatte]

This is great news, if nothing else then because it actually allows programs to grow their heap. Previous emscripten-based solutions have suffered severely from either running out of RAM, or requesting more than they need (and then sometimes not even being able to start because of fragmentation.)

The web browser is still a second-rate user interface toolkit compared to a native app, but at least this gives us a slight step forward. Whether that's enough, or whether most application development will be made using native toolkits in walled gardens, remains to be seen.