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Discussion on: What impact will Web Assembly have?

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Meghan (she/her)

WASM provides the ability to compile existing libraries to WASM and push code previously thought too heavy for the browser. Big existing engines like Unity are being made "natively" available for web development, and with type="module" coming to Workers soon bigger and bigger apps will be feasible. On the other end, this provides a way to make smaller web apps even more performant and use less bandwith.

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Leah

Not entirely true, for native libraries sure, but other than that it's not really smaller and very limited in what it can do

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Meghan (she/her)

It's still very young and barely past its MVP. The MVP was to just get a basic workable implementation in the big browsers. For more info checkout their Roadmap and planned future features.