WASM is basically Java applets but standardised, even acting as a binary blob to run websites in. Web applications written in frameworks like Flutter just render a fullscreen `` element and use obfuscated code to render what looks like a web page to a fancy picture element.
We lost the buggy plugins and the security holes, but the idea of “put a blob in a browser and run it” just keeps getting reinvented by browsers.
Imagine a world where Java integrated into the web was just as standard as JavaScript is now.
we were really close… I remember lots of placeholders for where Java applets were meant to be
WASM is basically Java applets but standardised, even acting as a binary blob to run websites in. Web applications written in frameworks like Flutter just render a fullscreen `` element and use obfuscated code to render what looks like a web page to a fancy picture element.
We lost the buggy plugins and the security holes, but the idea of “put a blob in a browser and run it” just keeps getting reinvented by browsers.