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Can you speculate on what these APIs will look like? JS is well suited for dealing with cross-browser incompatibilities because of its reflection support. That is much harder to build in a low-level target like WASM. COM is an example of what we might get, and that is not a pleasant prospect.


plenty of typed languages have reflection. i don’t see how this changes anything?


WASM is not a typed language. It is a language-agnostic compilation target.

So what would a DOM API exposed to WASM look like? COM is the only example that comes to mind.


> WASM is not a typed language. It is a language-agnostic compilation target.

These two things aren't contradictory. wasm is typed.




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