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by petabyt 372 days ago
Some of the compilers they use (msvc) are not open source and are not allowed to run in wasm. And porting entire compiler toolchains to wasm would be a gargantuan task.
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WASM has x86 emulators.
It would be a lot of data to download and would likely be uncomfortably slow for many cases.

Also, as is mentioned in the article in a few places, the website is optimised for low effort rather than low cost.