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by hyperhello 1185 days ago
There’s a cycle where something gets big because people use it. Say, a mushroom picker puts up a document about picking mushrooms. Now he can enjoy his hobby most excellently!

Next the programmers get interested. They help the mushroom picker upgrade his site with maps and a spreadsheet you can search and everything. Now the programmers can enjoy their hobby most excellently!

Then the overengineers take over and insist that it run Linux. Now you can compile Linux to Wasm, and it works if you just configure the endpoints according to an elegant scheme! The overengineers can enjoy their hobby most excellently!

But the mushroom picker who started this thing isn’t going to come back. No one ever picks up the thread of development again, and there’s nothing to do except “be online.” The ride is over.

1 comments

There's nothing preventing people from creating a regular HTML/CSS/js site, just like they can do right now, even though all major browsers already support wasm.