← Back to context 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. 3 comments Certhas Reply Someone 5 months ago 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. Certhas 5 months ago 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. ko27 5 months ago Of course you can, you can literally read the version from the file itself.
Someone 5 months ago 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. Certhas 5 months ago 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. ko27 5 months ago Of course you can, you can literally read the version from the file itself.
Certhas 5 months ago 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.
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.