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> I think you missed the part about it running in the browser?

The article expressly stated that was not the exciting part, for them.

This is another iteration of the same old byte code blah blah, and each iteration has gotten better, and this is the best yet. Maybe.

.NET did run in the browser from day 1, even if only on IE.

> I think you missed the part about it running in the browser?

.NET Core started as the Silverlight runtime, didn't it?

The extent of Wasm's availability on browsers is quite big right now. Both iOS and Android and all major desktop browsers. That sort of reach is what I meant by the term "the browser" used generically. Different from being an extension to one or a few browsers or something like that.

Silverlight was never a native part of the browser.