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Absolutely you can. With WebAsm SIMD you have near-native DSP performance. Downsides from my experience [1]:

- You are at the mercy of the browser. If browser engineers mess up the audio thread or garbage collection, even the most resilient web audio app breaks. It happens.

- Security mitigations prevent or restrict use of some useful APIs. For example, SharedArrayBuffer and high resolution clocks.

[1] https://bungee.parabolaresearch.com/bungee-web-demo




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