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by jayd16 8 hours ago
Hmm well I guess I don't quite get what counts as "just another platform." Surely every platform is going to have the native APIs that you need to abstract over. Why is WASM different?

Is it just a matter of WASM being too new to have full featured wrappers and APIs for your language of choice?
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frollogaston 3 hours ago
Yeah it's like how if you want a cross-platform UI in C, you kinda need to use something like SDL that abstracts away the platform specifics. Even then might be hard for everything to work.

Web is "just another platform" with its own specifics, and the advantage is multiple OSes can run that platform pretty much the same way.

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