> [...] go through the javascript host, which is slow
And now you admit:
> this is going beyond my level of experience [...]
> how much slower, i don't know
I guess people just repeat what they hear without questioning or understanding it, and then it becomes dogma.
> did you mean there are snappy webapplications running in WASM?
No. I meant that all existing web apps go through the "javascript host", using JavaScript. So if any of them are fast enough, and some certainly are, the problem isn't the "javascript host".
> [...] go through the javascript host, which is slow
And now you admit:
> this is going beyond my level of experience [...]
> how much slower, i don't know
I guess people just repeat what they hear without questioning or understanding it, and then it becomes dogma.
> did you mean there are snappy webapplications running in WASM?
No. I meant that all existing web apps go through the "javascript host", using JavaScript. So if any of them are fast enough, and some certainly are, the problem isn't the "javascript host".