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Its definitely meant to make javascript more capable. Currently while you can do some things with webaudio for example, with WASM you can use complex DSP, you can also build out valuable audio code that you want to keep locked down in binary format where someone getting your algorithm could do damage to your business but in the case of a webaudio DAW the code can't be run on the server.



I’d argue it’s intended to make the platform more capabale. JS is clearly part of the platform.

Really though, the point is that wasm’s goals aren’t somehow eliminating JavaScript, but complimenting it.


>the point is that wasm’s goals aren’t somehow eliminating JavaScript, but complimenting it

That may not be the goal of WASM's creators, but it will certainly be the goal of many of its implementers.




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