Re:Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flash?
by monocasa on Thursday July 26, 2018 @11:46AM
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For some cases, nice for the makers is nice for the users.
I don't think more than a handful of the games and little videos that I enjoyed as a kid on newgrounds and addicting games would have been made had they not had such a low barrier to creation.
I do kernel/firmware development now, so I'll be the first to admit that this value proposition isn't valid for all domains.
But sometimes, for some use cases, just having a simple to use scripting environment is totally the way to go. Particularly if it's sandboxed well and can't really harm the end user.
I don't think more than a handful of the games and little videos that I enjoyed as a kid on newgrounds and addicting games would have been made had they not had such a low barrier to creation.
I do kernel/firmware development now, so I'll be the first to admit that this value proposition isn't valid for all domains. But sometimes, for some use cases, just having a simple to use scripting environment is totally the way to go. Particularly if it's sandboxed well and can't really harm the end user.