Re:Uno: Single-Codebase for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS...
by oscargrouch on Thursday November 05, 2020 @12:24PM
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I think thats because WASM were not meant to serve those cases.
I see WASM more as an "accelerator". The big chunk of code continues to be Javascript that can consume WASM modules.
I dont think this case of whole complex applications in WASM will fly. It looks like ActiveX 2.0 all over again.
Of course some things will happen as full apps in WASM, but they are mostly tools people already use outside of the Web, so that particular crowd just want to reach the tool, it doesnt matter the medium.
I see WASM more as an "accelerator". The big chunk of code continues to be Javascript that can consume WASM modules.
I dont think this case of whole complex applications in WASM will fly. It looks like ActiveX 2.0 all over again.
Of course some things will happen as full apps in WASM, but they are mostly tools people already use outside of the Web, so that particular crowd just want to reach the tool, it doesnt matter the medium.