alt Hacker News> What are examples of such applications? Honest question - I'm curious to learn more about issues such applications have in production.
any application you use today that is written in JavaScript rendering to the DOM, is much harder to write in not-JavaScript
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Sorry, I'll ask my question in a better way: what applications written in wasm that exist today would benefit from this?
Now, maybe there aren't many because of performance - maybe they haven't used wasm because it was too slow. But I would appreciate seeing data on that - an application that tried wasm and gave up after seeing the overhead, at the least. But I would also expect to see apps that use wasm even despite some DOM overhead, because of the speedup on non-DOM code - and I'd like to see data on how much DOM overhead they are currently suffering.
I am asking because I'm familiar with a lot of apps ported to wasm, and they don't do this. That may just be because I am seeing one particular slice of the ecosystem! So I am very curious to learn about other parts.