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Oh God, narrow use case within Sheets that fits perfectly for WASM is only twice faster than JS, JS in shambles. Why won’t they rewrite everything in WASM?

I’m not sure what you were aiming for here, but you only reinforced me that JS is amazing if rewriting calculation worker yields only 2x improvement.

> So why am I using JavaScript again?

Re-read my comment, it’s all there.






A spreadsheet is a narrow use case? Excel won't die: https://www.economist.com/business/2024/10/15/why-microsoft-...

Try not to worry about it. Welcome your WebAssembly overlords and be happy.


> A spreadsheet is a narrow use case?

No, it’s not a narrow use case. I wake up my phone to spreadsheet calculation, I open HN - a little bit more spreadsheet, my kettle heats water via power of spreadsheet algorithm. Amazon purchase? Only via spreadsheets.




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