Hacker News Reader

I really wish WebAssembly didn’t use the word “Web”. Its best usecase is for the server. It just happens to also be great for challenging JavaScript in the browser.

View on HN

Why do you say its "best" usecase is for the server? I'm actually asking, not disputing, but I'm asking because it seems the big selling point of WASM, running new types of code that you couldn't run before, was never a problem on the server, where you can run whatever you like.

So, I'm assuming you have something else in mind, and I'm wondering what it is.

It doesn't challenge JS in the browser, it augments it.

Though I guess you could say it challenges stopgap measures like asm.js.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com