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by lesuorac 870 days ago
> Question from someone knew very little in this domain: what stops mass adoption of WebAssembly?

I think it's the focus on native apps. There's isn't exactly a benefit of WASM when you have a native app.

I was kinda hoping all the complaints about app stores would push people back to web apps and then I think you'd see a surgence of WASM. I guess Apple/Google gives apps too much tracking ability on native apps compared to web apps to make it worth it to re-do the app thrice (Android/iOS/Web Desktop) instead of just twice (Mobile Web/ Desktop Web).