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by tokyodude 2645 days ago
Except entirely irrelevant as WASM is not Javascript.
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techntoke 2644 days ago
Can you show me an example of a WebAssembly app that runs in the browser with JavaScript enabled?
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grungleshnorts 2644 days ago
There are probably newer examples, but from when WebAssembly was coming out:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/mozilla-games/ZenGarden/EpicZenGard... (from https://www.webassemblygames.com/ )

https://alpha.iodide.io/

https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...

https://github.com/mdn/webassembly-examples/

https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/wiki/Porting-E...

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techntoke 2644 days ago
Meant to say with JavaScript disabled.
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_jn 2645 days ago
Sure, though it’s still a web technology taking over an otherwise unrelated space ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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int_19h 2644 days ago
I don't think it's unrelated. Despite the name, WASM isn't really a "web technology" - it's a sandbox technology and a compile-once-run-everywhere technology, and there has always been demand for that outside the web, even before the web existed. It might be that the web is what created enough demand for it to happen in the end, but what do we care?

The problem with JS was never that it's a web technology. It's that it's a bad technology that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time to get a first mover advantage.

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