Comment by TekMol
3 days ago
That makes it sound like WASM only exists because of the nerdy preferences of compiler makers, not because of any benefits to the users of applications?
If speed is fine, why would a user care if the application was compiled to a language with "half-assed semantics" in a text format?
I don't think speed is fine. Here's a write-up from Mozilla which talks about the performance benefits of WASM compared to asm.js: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/03/why-webassembly-is-faster-...
FWIW, switching from asm.js to wasm in was hardly noticeable performance-wise for my code (at least in browsers that already had a special 'fast-path' for asm.js).