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Re:WASM: Big Deal or Little Deal? by lmm on Monday September 04, 2023 @10:08PM (#37387085)
How is any of that a "big deal" though? We've been compiling arbitrary code to Javascript for years now.

I'm all for WASM but it seems more on the level of a new processor generation or faster RAM than something revolutionary. I'm sure it took a lot of hard work by smart people, but for most of us it's an implementation detail.

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Re:WASM: Big Deal or Little Deal? by blovescoffee on Monday September 04, 2023 @10:40PM (#37387262)
You should read about the creation of Figma. Some applications require a certain level of performance or they just don’t have much value prop. WASM made figma possible
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Re:WASM: Big Deal or Little Deal? by lmm on Monday September 04, 2023 @10:53PM (#37387316)
Figma existed before WASM was enabled in browsers so clearly that's not true. They claim WASM improved their load times by 3x, which is a lot, but enough to make the difference between viable and not? I doubt it.
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