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Discussion on: Why the heck is everyone talking about WebAssembly?

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Dan Fockler

It's kind of that idea of a universal binary. If your computer can run a browser, it can run a WASM binary file. The coolest part is that it can be distributed just by visiting a website. I think getting webapps even closer to performance parity with native apps is still the goal. Allowing any language to compile to WASM is kind of a nice side-effect of having it running in a browser-based virtual machine.