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Why is he not?


Only thing I could find of him mentioning WebAssembly was here at 19:45: https://youtu.be/MxB0ldQfvT4?t=1185

In that video he says that it’s not a suitable target for TypeScript to compile to because WebAssembly doesn’t have a garbage collector. They’d have to basically implement an entire JavaScript engine in WebAssembly which would be pointless.

He gives some examples of things it could be good for, which are all CPU intensive things like image processing and video games, but he doesn’t seem to think it’s really suitable for making normal web apps.




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