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WebAssembly is cool and all, but it's depressing that the future of the web is binary.
So many people who grew up in the Web 1.0 era of HTML and JavaScript got their start exploring code with the "View source..." menu option.
I know Web 2.0 virtually killed the source-nature of the Web already, but Wasm is the final nail in the coffin.
@hisham_hm I don't see it as that bad, JavaScript is not going away. But the truth is, the phones are now powerful enough to run entire operating systems within browser tabs. So we're getting much more capabilities then we had.
But yeah, that means that some of those more advanced apps will not be open source. They're not open source even now though.
@zlatko Yes, I know we pretty much already got there, that's what I meant by the Web 2.0 comment