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by pjmlp 1602 days ago
It will definitly be the new common, by killing Flash et all without comparable tooling, while at the same time offering WASM, it was only a matter of time until we had the revenge of plugins.

Basically 10 years wasting time to come full circle.

https://leaningtech.com/cheerpj

https://leaningtech.com/cheerpx-for-flash/

https://opensilver.net/

All of the three major ones are now back, but it is ok, WASM is great!

1 comments

It's not really a "WASM problem", as such; you can use the DOM from WASM and that works quite well. Similarly, you can do all this kind of graphics drawing with just JS as well.

It's just a choice this framework made. I bet there are actually some real advantages to it, but also disadvantages. I very very much like the customizability of the web, so I'd be very surprised if the advantages would outweigh the problems.

In short, I don't think it's really the same as Flash.