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0 pointskrapp8y ago0 comments

I feel like this won't really take off until we have something other than a web browser, or something that just feels different from a web browser, which is optimized for WASM applications, and which includes package management. Caching a WASM application locally is not much different than downloading a standalone native binary.

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archagon8y ago

Yes! Get rid of the chrome, navigation buttons, etc. and give us a pseudo-VM that runs the browser as we know it as an “app”. I hope WASM and the like might eventually lead us there.

krappOP8y ago

It makes sense if the web is going to be divided up between "documents" and "applications" (which it is, whether anyone likes it or not) not to run the applications in an environment designed to display documents.

Bonus points if the default is to download, cache and update the source code and "installation" is just local compilation to an appdata folder or something, similar to what browsers do with HTML, CSS and JS, rather than just download a blob of bytecode. That would make the FOSS people happy.

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archagon8y ago

Yes! Get rid of the chrome, navigation buttons, etc. and give us a pseudo-VM that runs the browser as we know it as an “app”. I hope WASM and the like might eventually lead us there.

krappOP8y ago

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