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Comment by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF

I have high hopes for wasm on the desktop for app plugins. Loading a whole binary DLL/SO is such a risk. VMs like Lua don't give you enough performance. VMs like Python and Java require huge effort to embed.

Once the SIMD stuff is in, it may even have enough performance for music plugins. wasm codecs would be real cool too. Nobody likes having to build and install ffmpeg. `ffmpeg-4.0.wasm`... just imagine.

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