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by bullen 1777 days ago
The problem with the browser is that it is too bloated. Even if you manage to get performance with wasm you are still high up on a huge dependency tree that you'll never be able to climb down from.

As electricity prices go up we need to get closer to the metal, OpenGL might not be good but it's the best tool we have and probably will ever have. Vulkan might replace the middleware but the OpenGL API will survive.

As for the metaverse it does not depend on one implementation, but a bunch of file formats and network protocols, I'm pretty sure this protocol will prevail: http://github.com/tinspin/fuse