Re:Show HN: A WebAssembly game demo
by tribby on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @06:07PM
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I appreciate the nostalgia and share the sentiment, but it's mostly gone from the web already thanks to JS minification and asset minification in general. without a repo to look at the original code, it won't be of much use, even using devtools. you can figure it out a lot more quickly than analyzing a binary, sure, but the web isn't a "hey what's this how does this work" platform anymore, unfortunately.
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Yeah I feel like the OP missed the last 10 years or something, unreadable minified code is everywhere.
I read it well enough to see where the .wasm source was coming from. The demo.wasm is inscrutable to me where the JS around it is not. I realize not everyone is at a level where they can debug/read JS, but I can assure you it's possible to do as a person of only modest intellect. Source: I can do it, and I am a person of modest intellect. I can't really see a "path forward" doing the same thing with .wasm, even decompiled to s-expressions.