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by Skinney 2854 days ago
WebAssembly is still far away from being any sort of default for web development yet (if only because IE11 doesn't support it).

I also wouldn't be surprised if Elm compiled to wasm in the future.
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dorian-graph 2854 days ago
It's openly a desired/considered goal for Elm to compile to wasm.
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Skinney 2854 days ago
I know, I'm one of the people looking into it.
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dorian-graph 2854 days ago
Oh, haha! Cool.
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vimslayer 2854 days ago
Most compilers that target WebAssembly can also target asm.js, which is compatible with IE.

AFAIK it's more about missing stuff like DOM access and GC that stands in the way.

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Skinney 2854 days ago
> Most compilers that target WebAssembly can also target asm.js, which is compatible with IE.

asm.js is different enough that it's just not about adding a seperate asmjs "compatibility" target. On the top of my head you don't have 64-bit ints or floats and I believe the way you call asm.js fns from/to JS is different from wasm. Adding asm.js support just for IE 11 wouldn't be worth the effort.

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