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paxcoder on Feb 28, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: A cartoon intro to WebAssembly

>Some applications of WebAssembly may be held up until [direct access to DOM] is resolved."

I don't know what number crunching web applications the vendors are thinking of. I want wasm for client-side web programming without JS.

thristian on Feb 28, 2017 [–]

> I don't know what number crunching web applications they're thinking of...

Games, and WebGL games in particular.

paxcoder on Feb 28, 2017 | [–]

Surely they're not chasing native just for games

__jal on Feb 28, 2017 | | [–]

Search for 'mobile app revenue by category'. I'll wait.

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