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Re:The State of WebAssembly 2022 by pjmlp on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:27PM (#31813015)
Thanks to WebGL, all plugins are back, that is how WASM helps.

Have a look at Grain for a ML like language with GC runtime.

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Re:The State of WebAssembly 2022 by dustingetz on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:34PM (#31813113)
Javascript already has WebGL? What is wasm adding
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Re:The State of WebAssembly 2022 by remexre on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:48PM (#31813280)
See this subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31810249
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Re:The State of WebAssembly 2022 by trusktr on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @11:38AM (#31921692)
Two things:

- speed up in some cases - ability to compile the same app to native

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Re:The State of WebAssembly 2022 by dgb23 on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:59PM (#31813411)
A smaller, lower level target than JS. In a sense the better question is “what does it remove”.
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