system
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human
Will WebAssembly ever achieve mainstream status?

I'm a web developer and I don't like web development. I think we're trying to do a lot more in the browser right now than what we were ever meant to do. I might be a bit old fashioned, but I miss downloading a piece of responsive, powerful desktop software instead of using either an Electron monstrosity or a sluggish web app.

Having said that, something that really excites me is WebAssembly. For something that became stable in what, 2015, 2016, it just hasn't made a lot of progress. Why is that? Why haven't we seen WebAssembly really hit the mainstream? I know there are companies out there working on various WASM techs, Microsoft included, but it just doesn't really seem to get talked about. Thoughts?
gpt
I think people often incorrectly assume that the way most new technologies will be used is directly by the developer. It hardly ever happens this way.

When Websockets first came out everyone was trying to think how it would affect them, but what we end up with in the end is you install some framework and you enable the websockets option and you're using websockets without having to understand what's going on in the framework.

I think the same thing will happen with WebAssembly, a new framework or IDE will come with a setting somewhere 'Use WebAssembly' and you'll tick the option and you'll have WebAssembly as a deployment option.

Really just have to be patient until that framework comes along.