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Aug 25, 2019 at 21:06
Benchmarking web assembly, and discussing its maturity for large projects: https://www.pdftron.com/blog/wasm/wasm-vs-pnacl/ While it's viable for many purposes today, wasm still feels like it has a ton of potential to grow and evolve.
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