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Re:A cartoon intro to WebAssembly by paxcoder on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @04:21PM (#13757968)
>Some applications of WebAssembly may be held up until [direct access to DOM] is resolved."

I don't know what number crunching web applications the vendors are thinking of. I want wasm for client-side web programming without JS.

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Re:A cartoon intro to WebAssembly by thristian on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @04:25PM (#13758005)
> I don't know what number crunching web applications they're thinking of...

Games, and WebGL games in particular.

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Re:A cartoon intro to WebAssembly by paxcoder on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @04:27PM (#13758039)
Surely they're not chasing native just for games
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Re:A cartoon intro to WebAssembly by __jal on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @06:00PM (#13759080)
Search for 'mobile app revenue by category'. I'll wait.
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