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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...

>As for WebAssembly, my attitude remains "wait & see". I have not seen any applications running in the browser that would compel me to show more interest yet. When/if I ever do...?

I think this is reasonable. I've worked in this area (though my background is much more traditional app-dev and server-dev) and what CAN be done in the browser these days is really astonishing. However that still doesn't mean the browser is the BEST way. As a nerd it's really interesting just to play with but there are substantial hurdles, in our experience more related to content delivery since offline storage is VERY limited.

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