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Re:Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web by pizlonator on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @12:55PM (#47338083)
The fact that you made some webassembly things isn't an answer to the question of why webassembly is not used by the overwhelming majority of websites.
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Re:Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web by saghm on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @02:22PM (#47339232)
That's a fairly arbitrary metric. The overwhelming majority of code running outside of the browser on my laptop isn't in Python, but it's hard to argue that's evidence of it being "doomed to being a second-class citizen on my desktop indefinitely".
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Re:Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web by flohofwoe on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @01:03PM (#47338189)
> why webassembly is not used by the overwhelming majority of websites

This is such a bizarre take that I don't know whether it's just a trolling attempt or serious...

Why should web-devs switch to WASM unless they have a specific problem to solve where WASM is the better alternative to JS? The two technologies live side by side, each with specific advantages and disadvantages, they are not competing with each other.

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Re:Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web by pizlonator on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @01:10PM (#47338285)
> This is such a bizarre take that I don't know whether it's just a trolling attempt or serious...

I'm being serious.

> Why should web-devs switch to WASM unless they have a specific problem to solve where WASM is the better alternative to JS?

They mostly shouldn't. There are very few problems where wasm is better.

If you want to understand why wasm is not better, see my other posts in this thread.

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