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Re:Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web by TheLNL on Thursday March 12, 2026 @05:07AM (#47348201)
Say goodbye to writing multiple kinds of plugins and userscripts for random websites I guess. I don't want the transition to wasm because it looks like it will make most things unchangeable binary blobs
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Re:Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web by zeratax on Thursday March 12, 2026 @06:40AM (#47348845)
I don't follow? when you write userscripts you modify the dom not the already running scripts usually, no?
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Re:Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web by TheLNL on Thursday March 12, 2026 @02:35PM (#47355234)
Wouldn't there be a point where the mainstream approach is to just have compiled blobs write directly to the canvas, say a point where someone compiles a qt application and hosts it on their website.

What can you even modify there, when all the structure is flattened into a single layer

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Re:Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web by bvisness on Friday March 13, 2026 @07:12PM (#47371258)
You can already make apps that write directly to a canvas today, and almost nobody does because they want what the DOM provides for them. Wasm changes nothing about the APIs available to web apps.
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