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steveklabnik on Oct 22, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust to WebAssembly Made Easier

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.

krapp on Oct 23, 2017 [–]

>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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