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moocowtruck on Feb 16, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: WebAssembly First Public Working Drafts

so once all desktop is in the browser, can we then make the browser the sole interface, and all in one stroke have desktop apps again? Ouroboros eh?

krapp on Feb 16, 2018 [–]

WebAssembly apps don't have to be hosted on the web, or run in a browser. They will, almost exclusively, because the "browser as OS" model is what modern web developers have fixated on, because of javascript. But, there's no reason users couldn't install and run WASM natively as well.

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