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[โ€“] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm choosing the third side: WebAssembly

[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blazingly fast ๐Ÿฆ€๐Ÿฆ€๐Ÿฆ€

[โ€“] marcos 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Incredibly powerful type system ฮปฮปฮป

And the best part, those two interop better than in native code.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

those two interop better than in native code

Really? Why is that?

[โ€“] marcos 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The wasm ABI allows for a bit more flexibility than the C one.

I'm not sure how much impact it has on practice (probably very little, otherwise somebody would have fixed it), but in native code there's a lot of potential for mismatching behaviors from the two different runtimes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I had no idea, thanks for explaining!

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

You can even compile Fortran code to wasm and run it on a web browser. Who need Javascript's puny 64bit floating point precision when you can have Fortran's superior 128bit floating point precision?

[โ€“] Static_Rocket 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have they finally dumped the required js stub loader?

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

No, but GUI frameworks can generate it for you. Same goes for DOM access, for which there's normally only a JavaScript API.

So, you'll likely want to read JS, when researching what events or properties you can read/write for certain HTML nodes in the DOM, but with a mature GUI framework, you should not need to write any JS.