Reply to post: Re: This is all rather confusing

Beyond video to interactive, personalised content: BBC is experimenting with rebuilding its iPlayer in WebAssembly

richardcox13

Re: This is all rather confusing

> For a start, there's nothing (in principle) you can do with WebAssembly that you can't do with Javascript

True of any Turing complete language: they are all theoretically as capable as each other. However I'll leave wearing a hair-shirt for the masochists. JavaScript is not a good choice where significant numeric processing is needed (eg. decoding a media stream).

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