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Comment by sjrd

Nice article.

Although, as always with articles on WebAssembly, it keeps repeating that wasm is faster than JavaScript, without ever mentioning the limitations of wasm wrt. JS (no GC, no interaction with the DOM or with JS libraries besides numbers, etc.). And that means there are zillions of developers who keep being misled in thinking stuff like "Why don't you compile to wasm to make your stuff faster?". That includes absurdities like "We should write a compiler from JavaScript to wasm to make all our JS faster!"

parent sjrd 8 years ago

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