Comment by Certhas

5 months ago

If you have a native decoder you don't need to run WASM. It's literally in the abstract.

But given a file in this format, you cannot know whether your native decoder can read it without running WASM; the file you read may use a feature that was invented after your library was written.

  • As others said: you can. And what's the alternative? Not being able to read the data or never being able to evolve the encoding.

  • Of course you can, you can literally read the version from the file itself.