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> Anyone can run their C trough minifiers

I don't know of any programs that are distributed as C to be run directly like javascript.

> Machine code donesn't move needle of obfuscation much at all

There are two very fundamental mistakes you are making when equating webasm to raw processor instructions. The first is that webasm even its binary format is still organized in a abstract syntax tree, so its instruction are not flat, they are in a hierarchy.

The second is that webasm doesn't take care of the input and output. Right now it doesn't even interface with the document object model, so all the IO is still done through javascript.




> I don't know of any programs that are distributed as C to be run directly like javascript.

https://github.com/kripken/emscripten


That's not what emscripten does. It compiles C to javascript and the program is distributed as javascript, not C.




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