Are you sure you aren't the one "lost in the weeds there"? What you're talking about has nothing to do with anything, it's a matter of software updates.

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yunnpp 2 days ago | parent [-]

Do you have a technical background?

WASM offers a false sense of portability only because it is basically useless. It's not even POSIX-compliant (WASIX is a WIP). By the time it becomes useful, they will have realized they have re-implemented Java. And even then, it'll only offer a half-assed subset of functionality that you'd get from going native.

WebGPU is a similar story. It's based on a decades-old API, lagging severely behind present-day Vulkan. And it's not even well-supported across browsers. Again, you'll get better portability and more functionality from just going native.

To suggest that all of this is a "sofware update" away seems very naive. The kind of thing somebody without a technical background would suggest.

	▲	CyberDildonics 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Do you have a technical background? Do you? WASM offers a false sense of portability only because it is basically useless. That doesn't have much to do with this project or what I talked about. It is a bytecode meant to be JIT compiled. It has nothing to do directly with supporting an API, and none of this has anything to do with running on the GPU. lagging severely behind present-day Vulkan. So what? What does this have to do with anything? What point are you trying to make? And it's not even well-supported across browsers. It's new and already works in chrome. What is your point? To suggest that all of this is a "sofware update" away seems very naive. The kind of thing somebody without a technical background would suggest. There is no substance here, just you saying "nu uh". My recommendation, as someone with a technical background, is that you try it with chrome. It's easy to install, just search for install chrome then download the executable, then double click. I think you misunderstood everything that I was saying though, your reply doesn't seem to connect to the idea that using an API then making the benefits of the API the unique aspect of the software is a bad idea.