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by sureglymop 589 days ago
I think the advantage is just that the same code runs on the server and in the browser, same as with a lot of code for Node.js.

For example, I wrote an ssg in rust but I was able to fully compile it to wasm and it works in the browser.
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treflop 589 days ago
WebAssembly adds a virtual machine so you run any high level language in the browser.

C++, Java, Go, Erlang, Rust, PHP, JavaScript, C#, whatever

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kaba0 589 days ago
Google has been doing it 2 decades ago with Gmail and the like. They could compile java to js. More recently, clojure and c#'s blazor come to mind that have the same ability.
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