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You’re right, but it’s worth noting that nothing about that is particular to wasm. A JS app could equally avoid the DOM and render its own UI components via WebGL/WebGPU.



wasm is just fast at doing that that's all.

However, do make us to think we need another API for general JS without WebGL and GPU access.




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