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teg4n_ on May 21, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The balance has shifted away from SPAs

It really hasn’t been moving towards web assembly. Web assembly is not magic performance pixie dust and it generally has pretty bad bundle size. You need pretty specific scenarios to get genuine improvements with web assembly over JavaScript.

adamnemecek on May 21, 2022 [–]

> magic performance pixie dust

It is. I can finally have value types which let me access properties without incurring the overhead of a JIT.

> and it generally has pretty bad bundle size

For now. So do websites btw.

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