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		frithsun on March 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The tug-of-war over server-side WebAssembly The fight for WASI is dramatically more important for the future of tech than AI, bitcoin, and all the other silly fads. If WASM gets sucked into the vortex of pragmatism and fails at its original mission of discarding all of the technical debt and obsolete paradigms, then we'll miss out on a golden opportunity to reinvent the modern technology stack. Those who want to deliver something that works right now can fork the project and call it WARN (WebAssemblyish Right Now).

Havoc on March 24, 2023 [–]

Important yes but not sure it matters which way it goes. Looking at how things went with JS this stuff evolves over time anyway as new needs come up

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