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Re:The State of WebAssembly 2022 by jeffparsons on Monday June 20, 2022 @12:52PM (#31812580)
You can "pre-initialise" the JavaScript VM so that your JavaScript code starts much faster at the cost of some small ongoing performance penalty.

I think the main use case is "serverless" or "edge compute" where start-up time is often hugely important.

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Re:The State of WebAssembly 2022 by goatlover on Monday June 20, 2022 @02:35PM (#31813877)
Why not just use a language that's better suited for serveless or edge computing? Why is JS the hammer to every programming nail? Aren't programmers supposed to be able to learn and use multiple languages, depending on best use case?
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Re:The State of WebAssembly 2022 by trusktr on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @11:36AM (#31921651)
Perhaps they are, but they don't want to.
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