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Re:Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me ... by lliamander on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @04:33PM (#31345365)
If you want to write in a high-level language in the browser, wouldn't it make more sense to compile to JavaScript?

It seems to me like the main value proposition in Web Assembly was to provide a target for languages like C, C++, and Rust.

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Re:Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me ... by kevingadd on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @05:44PM (#31346252)
Compiling to JS is a good option, with the caveat that it will never deliver consistent performance. JS engine vendors place less importance on optimizing for JS transpilers now that the future is WebAssembly.
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