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Re:How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browser by discreteevent on Saturday December 19, 2020 @11:49AM (#25478686)
Not in terms of using the language either. And the reason it is used the world over is because it was dictated to developers by browser makers. That's the single and only reason.
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Re:How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browser by MaxBarraclough on Sunday December 20, 2020 @05:42AM (#25485315)
I agree, but I'd still rank JavaScript as one of the more approachable major languages.
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