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Comment by AlOwain

I realize this is not an orthodox view, but WASM won't make the typical user have a better experience.

I think it could improve Photopea, the various office suite programs, and perhaps unknown unknowns.

But, much more important than the uncertain is the current Web which will become less accessible and closed.

The ease in reverse engineering JavaScript has more than once shown negligence and malice by Website developers (one example is the recent Google scandal, where they were diminishing the user experience on competing browsers).

If I wanted to run trusted programs, I would have used native binaries.

parent AlOwain 7 months ago

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