Lin Clark Web assembly

 

I totally agree with Lin Clark the web has experienced a lot of changes and the uses we give today are not remotely near what was envisioned in the early days, most of the people that work with computers in a casual or administrative way only use the web browser as their tool of work, even more technical people tend to use technical applications more and more and the need for installed applications in the computer is declining. 

Web assembly is pretty impresive, the gain you get compared to simple Javascript  are great, and for things that need high performance like web browsers is a big leap, since the current languages like JavaScript have some performance limitations, Web assembly does not have these hard limitations, so its potential to grow is really big,sure without some amenities that Javascript have but for high performance in certain applications our tools need to change, and Web Assembly is that tool we need, it even increases the portability in the code, you don’t have to depend in different engines that could run different code more or less quickly, a more general approach can get rid of this specific optimization problem. 

The fact that only recognized integers and floats is pretty cumbersome in some cases but with those tools that are being worked on the load is less, still I am not sure how they work or if they are going to degrade performance if they are used or not. 

The data visualization aspect is pretty interesting to me, since graphs especially big graphs that need a lot of detail are computationally expensive, using Web Assembly for that purpose would be useful, and if React could implement in the future Web Assembly would be amazing and could help a lot to preserve resources and drive down hardware costs for a specific task.

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