WebAssembly is cool and all, but it's depressing that the future of the web is binary.
So many people who grew up in the Web 1.0 era of HTML and JavaScript got their start exploring code with the "View source..." menu option.
I know Web 2.0 virtually killed the source-nature of the Web already, but Wasm is the final nail in the coffin.
Hisham /
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2023-06-19 04:19:53
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