[gishh]

I am a huge, huge fan of wasm. The first time I was able to compile a qt app to Linux, windows, Mac, and wasm targets, I was so tickled pick it was embarrassing. Felt like I was truly standing on the shoulders of giants and really appreciated the entirety of the whole “stack” if you will.

Running code in a browser isn’t novel. It’s very circular. I actually met someone the other day that thought JavaScript was a subset of Java. Same person was also fluent in php.

Wasm is really neat, I really love it. My cynical take on it is that, at the end of the day, it’ll just somehow help ad revenue to find another margin.

[bloppe]

Fair. Running in the browser isn't novel, but JS/TS are some of the most popular languages in history and that almost certainly never would have happened without monopolizing the browser.

Expanding margins are fine by me. Anticompetitive markets are not. My hope is that wasm helps to break a couple strangleholds over platforms (cough cough iOS cough Android)

[binary132]

I really don’t think Apple is going to let anyone get away with too much browser appifying of iOS.

[bloppe]

It's not a question of Apple letting anyone do anything. It's just a question of governments forcing it to do so.