alt Hacker NewsInteresting article which reinforces my decision to never engage with web development in any manner other than throwing WASM paint on a Canvas.
> But a purpose-built game framework like Unity would have polyfill to protect you from more of these layout and audio problems
Unity doesn't polyfill, it just relies on WASM for everything which results in significantly more consistent behaviour provided your browser supports WASM to begin with.
> Unity and Godot might be better choices, but I have no experience with them and I assume they only make sense for games.
Unity has been used for non-game purposes successfully, and there are also other WASM-compatible frameworks specifically targeting non-game GUI use cases.
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Unfortunately web API doesn't yet allow drawing multi-line text in canvas. To draw multi-line text in canvas you need a layouting library
Unity in the browser fails basic interactions like copy and paste. All WASM paint on an Canvas apps on the browser have similar issues with non-english input, accessability, integration with tihngs like dictionaries, password managers, etc...
So, no, do not do Wasm + Canvas