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WebAssembly is a bit underwhelming to be honest. It feels like every week there is a new language that can come close to C performance meanwhile they've been working on WebAssembly for years and years and it can barely beat JS.

Shouldn't WA as a greenfield project with it's extremely basic memory model and lack of runtime or standard library be super easy to optimize?

After all, there is no point in having the bad ergonomics of assembly together with the awful performance of JS, right?




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