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by BlueTemplar 1611 days ago
Isn't it an intermediating language ? Why would it replace them, it's not like a lot of people directly code in assembly when C is available...
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Instead of, as an example, coding a plugin in lua, you code it in whatever you want and compile to wasm (that supports wasm as a compile target). In that sense it would be replacing lua.
But lua is typically used as an easy scripting language for non-programmers...