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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by krapp on Saturday September 23, 2017 @08:12AM (#15319381)
>Despite this I really get the impression a lot of non-JavaScript developers are really hoping this is some holy grail to allow them to write in their favorite language for the web platform, which WebAssembly absolutely isn't.

It already is. Lua has already been ported to WebAssembly, people are writing apps in C/C++ with SDL, I've seen MVPs of .Net, and once WASM gets native garbage collection, the floodgates are going to open. The sandbox only makes it more attractive.

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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by txdv on Sunday September 24, 2017 @04:37AM (#15323918)
Yeah, I wonder why OP thinks that the sandbox is bad.

Yes, you won't be able to use the filesystem and other std stuff, but you want to do browser stuff in the browser, like creating websockets and coloring your dom nodes in various colors

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