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Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web

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by dfabulich

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Today, the entire Web API is defined in WebIDL, a specification-only interface-definition language that inherently assumes you have access to JavaScript strings, objects, exceptions, promises, etc. None of those are available in WASM.
WebAssembly Components aren't nearly enough to accomplish what this article offers to accomplish. Even once components are a thing, you'd then have to restandardize the entire Web API in their new IDL, WIT.
The WebIDL specifications have taken decades to standardize. It requires Apple, Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft to agree on everything. Getting all of them to agree to restandardize on a new IDL is not going to happen this decade.

by mendyberger

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by thesmart

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WebAssembly is amazing, but I don't think making it a DOM controller is where the action is. What specific scenarios do you aspire to unlock and why would those scenarios lead to broader adoption?

by nilslice

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providing <script type="module" src="component.wasm"></script>
and the import loader to just put .wasm in an import and get to call functions are the actual useful things in this post
component model is trash