What's the latest with WebAssembly? I must admit, I'm not fully sure I understand what its goals are and what we should expect its usecases to be.
For a time there seemed to be a lot of hype around writing SPAs in whatever language you like, not just JavaScript, but that seems to have cooled off somewhat - at least that's my impression.
Last time I checked in it seemed to be actually quite the opposite - good for low level stuff, data processing, graphics, things in other threads essentially, but if you want to touch the DOM at all just use JS seemed to still be the standard advice. I haven't looked again since. Have things progressed on that front, and if not was that ever really a goal of WebAssembly anyway?
For a time there seemed to be a lot of hype around writing SPAs in whatever language you like, not just JavaScript, but that seems to have cooled off somewhat - at least that's my impression.
Last time I checked in it seemed to be actually quite the opposite - good for low level stuff, data processing, graphics, things in other threads essentially, but if you want to touch the DOM at all just use JS seemed to still be the standard advice. I haven't looked again since. Have things progressed on that front, and if not was that ever really a goal of WebAssembly anyway?