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As I noted, my comment is not about their code. Nor the functionality for that matter. And yes, I'm aware of the issues in PS and PDF rendering, having worked on them as part of a not-so-common and very-common operating system that deeply used them.

Wasm is designed around bringing non-web-native languages to the web. A good project would have been to enable new web native languages to complement JavaScript. Instead, there's an emphasis particularly on bringing C++ to the web. I think this is counter to the philosophy of the platform and harmful in the long run.

I agree, it's 100% rational from your point of view, just as compiling it for the Flash VM or running as an ActiveX component would have made perfect sense for you to bring your high-quality code to more platforms.

My hesitation isn't about your code. It's about what we as a community are doing to the web platform.

Yes. And why? So some bro could be a "founder" of a project to get a promotion. Fly around on expenses holding meetings and act all important. I've been in the room. The pseudo-PC bro-ness is nauseating.

This is not a comment on the work done by these no doubt well-intentioned folks. But to pull a quote from their article:

"compile our 500.000 LOC C++ core to WebAssembly and asm.js"

This is absolutely terrible for the web :-( We've escaped activex, flash, java applets, and now we're bringing lots of legacy c++ to the web in a way that conflicts with the underlying tenets?