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Re:Making Your Own Tools by GoOnThenDoTell on Saturday May 15, 2021 @09:41PM (#27170507)
I thin WASM will help with the GUI problem

Everyone wants to reuse their web app on the desktop, but soon it could flip the other way around if you can suddenly run your native app in a browser

Re:Making Your Own Tools by Oddskar on Sunday May 16, 2021 @06:47AM (#27172738)
This is such a dull take at this point.

I'm sorry, but WASM won't magically be able to port your UI app to the web. Just because it can convert some basic logic doesn't mean that it will be able to create a performant application that uses the underlying browser APIs correctly.

Lets say there was some sort of framework that did this in your language of choice, there's still significant downsides in terms of interop with the rest of the JS ecosystem and debugging.

Re:Making Your Own Tools by greggman3 on Sunday May 16, 2021 @04:54AM (#27172279)
I'm not yet totally convinced. There are no WASM apps that handle full unicode, with CJK input, right to left input, etc.... that I know of. I'm not looking forward to every wasm app having it's own quirks that are vastly different than the quirks of my OS.
Re:Making Your Own Tools by junon on Sunday May 16, 2021 @02:02AM (#27171538)
This is exactly where it's going. You are right
Re:Making Your Own Tools by teddyh on Sunday May 16, 2021 @02:40AM (#27171698)
Re:Making Your Own Tools by amelius on Sunday May 16, 2021 @06:32AM (#27172667)
> (...) Death of JavaScript

Don't worry, people will run V8 inside WASM.