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0 pointspjmlp1y ago0 comments

Back in the day you would have used .NET plugin for browsers, which got replaced by Silverlight plugin, nowadays it is WebAssembly, really nothing new per se.

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zfg1y ago· 2 in thread

Except that it's implemented in all browsers with nothing extra to install.

All third party browser plugins failed eventually.

pjmlpOP1y ago

And now we have all plugins back, that is the only utility for WebAssembly, doing two level translation of bytecodes.

zfg1y ago

WebAssembly is no more a plugin than JavaScript is.

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