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Being able to view source is a design goal of WebAssembly, according to [0].

If an organization doesn't want you reading their JS, there are already plenty of tools to make it nearly impossible as-is. Do you really learn anything from reading minified, obfuscated code? At some point you're just reverse engineering, which is obviously still possible with WebAssembly.

'Open source by default' is a problem to be solved at a cultural level, not a technical one.

[0] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#wil...



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