Reply to post: Re: Heard all these promises before.. about 25 years ago...

What is WebAssembly? And can you really compile C/C++ to it? And it'll run in browsers? Allow us to explain in this gentle introduction

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Re: Heard all these promises before.. about 25 years ago...

Browsers WERE designed from the ground up to browse. Then the people who make browsers (well mainly Google but others followed) decided to prioritise all the other stuff... WebGL, HTML5, Canvas, etc. All designed so you don't have to hack HTML to do such application-ary patterns.

The idea that your browser is only able/designed for browsing HTML/CSS is really only showing that you are out of date.

Comparing Java plugins from decades ago is really not a valid comparison either.

>>Some people just got to learn the hard way. All over again.

And some people learn something once and refuse to ever accept anything else.

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