Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web

Re:Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web by GianFabien on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @11:15PM (#47345980)

I don't use WASM as a replacement for JS. I never have a need to manipulate DOM, etc from WASM. JS is perfectly fine and performant for those purposes.

As I see it, WASM is used to augment the JS/WebAPI ecosystem. For example, when you need to do heavy bit manipulation, complex numerical processing. The round-trip JS->WASM->JS is an overhead. So the WASM modules should perform a substantial amount of processing to offset that inefficiency.

I frequently find that V8 optimisations yield sufficient performance without needing to delve into WASM.

IMHO if you want to write WebApps in Rust, you're holding it wrong.

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Re:Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web by thezipcreator on Thursday March 12, 2026 @01:02AM (#47346685)

I disagree. That's how WASM is now, and I guess that's fine, but that's not all it could be. I really think it would be awesome if you could write code for the web in your preferred programming language.

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