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		Ray20 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kern... I hope so too. Websites that load runtimes for various programming languages are too slim; they need to load the entire operating system, otherwise why do we need all these powerful home computers?.

charcircuit 6 months ago [–]

There's already a problem of downloading 10s of megabytes of web assembly. We don't need to download gigabytes for a single page.

cogman10 6 months ago | [–]

Yes, but then how else could I run a docker container in the browser?

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