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> I can already write decent C# applications that run in browser .. it will run fine.

It is undoubtedly technically possible, but not really practicable, unless you accept an exorbitant speed-down and much higher memory consumption than e.g. when running in DotNet. Personally, I don't find that attractive in any way, nor do I find it particularly efficient.



I've been trying it on small CRUDs, so nothing impressive was happening on the front side, so I didn't really notice those problems.

I think DLLs size and lack of DOM access was the biggest problem at the moment I've been testing it


Try with a representative application where a whole JS based single page app is implemented in another language than JS (e.g. C++/Qt), which is one of the core benefit propositions made by WASM.




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