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A comment on Firefox's low-latency WebAssembly compiler. Parent comment

Re:Firefox's low-latency WebAssembly compiler by dstaley on Thursday March 26, 2020 @04:08PM (#22697401)
> but if you want to touch the DOM at all just use JS seemed to still be the standard advice

This is still the current state of WebAssembly. There's several proposals out there that, if implemented, could change the situation. The primary one that I'm aware of is the interface types proposal [1].

[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/interface-types/blob/master/p...

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Re:Firefox's low-latency WebAssembly compiler by dmitriid on Thursday March 26, 2020 @05:36PM (#22698248)
And Garbage Collection. Without it, you can't touch DOM IIRC.
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