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		colanderman on July 27, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flas... I've read the entire WASM spec and implemented a WASM loader and linter. It doesn't do anything that JS can't do on its own. It's just a slightly faster asm.js, in a way which is irrelevant to any comparison between JS and Flash, since JS in V8 is already far faster than AS in Flash ever was.

nailer on July 27, 2018 [–]

What I've been told by the WASM folks is that WASM won over asm.js because WASM allows you to do things that weren't possible in asm.js. I'm not a low level programmer - my WASM usage comes from Unreal Engine development - hence recommending you seek more knowledgable advice!

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