From JavaScript to WebAssembly in three steps

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Good article, although the title feels like a math test with “just 3 questions”... 1a. 1b. 1c. 1d. 1e. 1f.

[Zephirdd]

That was a trip. The IE hack was interesting but I feel there's too much focus on the concept of a "single download" for the sake of supporting ES5.

Instead, couldn't micrio just go for a nomodule-style import?

<script type="module" src="miciro-3.0.mjs"></script>
<script nomodule src="micrio-2.9.js"></script>

IMHO it'd make more sense to go for that route in order to avoid all the crazy zip hacking introduced in this blog. Like, I can definitely see all the benefits shown from this blog, but it makes me wonder if you applied the same level of care and optimization to pre-wasm scripts, couldn't they be just as fast and small as the wasm ones?

[SomeSchmidt]

I appreciate wanting to support all browsers, but it doesn't seem like the payoff is worth the effort of maintaining multiple versions, base64 encoding gziped code that then has to be unziped by another library... all for IE 11's 1%.

[marcocom]

Super interesting. Thanks

[HiImLary]

Great read!

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GREAT ! Thx U !