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by ninjaaron 2694 days ago
Why is web assembly a desirable target? Wouldn't it make more sense to use LLVM IR or something that can go down to native? It don't get why, if you're compiling down to such a low level anyway, you'd want to target a bulkier runtime like wasm.

I also don't really understand why you'd want more than one language in the shell, but I guess if you wa