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vhcrtoday at 4:48 PM1 replyview on HN

Obviously it is, I've been writing a scientific library that runs in-browser and WebAssembly has been a blessing, it's easily 10x faster than the backend Python code it replaced, and 2-5x faster than I could achieved with JavaScript.


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afavourtoday at 5:37 PM

OP said:

> We still don't have all applications running super-fast on the web. This is a failure.

My point is that the vast majority of webapps do not rely on specific scientific libraries doing complex calculations.