What practical use cases for #WebAssembly can you imagine?
Tell about it in this thread.
I use WASM to integrate software solutions across different stacks. For example, I compile a Twofish cipher implementation from C to WASM and use it in the browser. It’s cheap and prevents reinventing the wheel.
However, WASM has limitations: no threads, no hardware acceleration, etc.
What other real-world use cases can you imagine?
@vitonsky From my vantage point, WASM is shaping up to be a new cross-platform binary format / virtual machine; akin to what Java tried to be so many years back. It can be very performant (matching native with a slightly smarter AOT compiler), while also being really well sandboxed by design--both things which you want if you are running binary apps from untrusted sources.
Main limitation today seems to be the missing integrations. WASI comes close, but its still work-in-progress. 🤔
Robert Vitonsky
Bojidar Marinov