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I'd be extremely careful calling a computer science professor's opinion shit-posting. He's basing his argument on end-user experience. You, on the other hand, are giving dev-experience more weightage. Depending on what you want, WASM may or may not be useful.

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For a scientist, he does a piss-poor job of producing open, reproducible research. He doesn't even show numbers. Whatever his credentials may be, this post is all talk without even a nugget of actual data or information. So yes, it borders on shit-posting. We have to expect better from a CS professor

Yeah - in a way it's worse that the article is so lacking in detail because you expect the evidence to be present as a base-line level of competency for a person with such a position. We certainly shouldn't be appealing to authority, at any rate.

Just because someone has a respectable credential or title does not mean that they don't like to troll sometimes, or worse (nb: no accusations are being made here), have a vested interest in opposition.

People, for reasons we don't know, understand or maybe without reason at all, put their professional reputations on the line all the time. Most of the time it goes by unnoticed.

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