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		oefrha on Sept 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learn WebAssembly by writing small programs From reading about it, it seems to suffer the same problem as Go compiled to wasm: payload is huge, usually multi-MB after compression.

cyanydeez on Sept 6, 2023 [–]

Is there an article comparing other compile targets.

I mostly get the impression that the compiler in browser is the problem.

If it's adopted natively, that should disappear.

All I'd need is Firefox, edge and chrome to switch to publishing wasm.

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