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by kierangill 1843 days ago
> You must view the browser with JS and WASM as a unit

“Web” assembly is a bit of a misnomer. It’s an IR at the end of the day and can be run without a browser[1]. But your other points could be true one day if the de facto WASM runtime becomes bloated or decides to ship with some GUI renderer.

[1] https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime