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Re:W3C recommends WebAssembly by thosakwe on Friday December 06, 2019 @02:30PM (#21725181)
> Eventually somebody is going to ship a product that's nothing more than a browser implemented in WASM that runs inside your browser

Sounds like a slippery slope to me. What makes you think users will be satisfied with load times for something like that, which also probably will have a frustrating-to-use interface?

Re:W3C recommends WebAssembly by sjy on Friday December 06, 2019 @04:02PM (#21725947)
Users seem pretty satisfied with single-page apps. They are slow to load and have frustrating-to-use (inconsistent) interfaces, at least compared to my memory of 1990s desktop software. If users actually cared about performance then software would get faster over time.
Re:W3C recommends WebAssembly by Someone on Friday December 06, 2019 @06:55PM (#21727318)
Consider some company running some web application for their employees that “works best in” IE 6 or, for example, Chrome, but the 2018 version.

A third party that offers a way to run that on their iPad at the cost of a one-time 100MB download will find customers.

archive.org also might find something like it useful. How else are you going to show old sites in 20 year’s time?