Reaching the Unix Philosophy's Logical Extreme with WebAssembly

Re:Reaching the Unix Philosophy's Logical Extreme with WebAs... by capableweb on Monday August 28, 2023 @06:56PM (#37301436)

I mean probably, yeah, but why? You'd still need JS to involve the DOM with anything, and that's the performance expensive stuff, so might as well just do the whole thing in JS.

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Re:Reaching the Unix Philosophy's Logical Extreme with WebAs... by patmorgan23 on Monday August 28, 2023 @07:33PM (#37301668)

Isn't there work on letting WASM call the DOM/Browser API's directly without having to go through JavaScript?

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Re:Reaching the Unix Philosophy's Logical Extreme with WebAs... by mr_toad on Monday August 28, 2023 @09:13PM (#37302363)

Like nuclear fusion, it’s always just over the horizon.

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