Feb. 19, 2024, 10:15 p.m. | Brian Kirkpatrick

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If you're poked around a few things, you know that WASM can be pretty neat. That having said, it still feels stuck in a niche, only realizing a fraction of its full potential. Consider:



  • If you're not writing in a language specifically set up to enable WASM generation, like Rust, you're likely going to require onerous third-party tooling (I'm looking at you, emscripten!) with significant "adapter" layers on both sides of your code


  • The web-based applications can be interesting but …

beauty language python rust set wasm webassembly writing

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