alt Hacker NewsFigma is one site. There are also a handful of other sites that use wasm. But most of the web does not use wasm.
> Where it is currently fairly painful is in writing traditional websites, given all the glue code required to interact with the DOM - exactly what these folks are trying to solve.
I don't think they will succeed at solving the pain, for the reasons I have enumerated in this thread.
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swiftcoder • yesterday at 5:15 PM
I mean, you are obviously entitely to your opinion, but folks have been solving this stuff the hard, glue-based way for ages now, and are using WASM wherever there is an advantage to do so. Getting rid of the glue layer and the associated performance problems can only accelerate those efforts
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> Figma is one site. There are also a handful of other sites that use wasm. But most of the web does not use wasm.
Most of the web also doesn't use the Video element, but it isn't 'a dud' either.
Video and wasm are critical for a small subset of the web. That subset includes YouTube and Netflix for Video, and Figma and Photoshop and Unity games for wasm.