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Google Sheets is one of the most widely used applications on the planet. It's not niche.

Amazon switched their Prime Video app from JavaScript to WebAssembly for double the performance. Is streaming video a niche use case?

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I think they meant most people aren’t building a high performance spreadsheet, not most people aren’t using a high performance spreadsheet.

> most people aren’t building a high performance spreadsheet

Lots of people are building Blazor applications:

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blaz...

> not most people aren’t using a high performance spreadsheet

A spreadsheet making use of WebAssembly couldn't be deployed to the browser if WebAssembly hadn't taken off in browsers.

Practical realities contradict pjmlp's preconceptions.

Don't mix mainstream adoption at the same level as regular JavaScrip and Typescript, with availability.

Microsoft would wish Blazor would take off like React and Angular, in reality it is seldom used outside .NET shops intranets in a way similar to WebForms.

> Blazor is seldom used outside .NET shops intranets

So, in other words, widely used in lots and lots of deployments.

Do you have a number for us?

Can you actually build something like Figma in Blazor? Does Blazor somehow facilitate that?

I think that was sarcasm :)

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