> It's a good idea, but a better idea would be to make the browser a virtual machine running wasm. HTML, SVG and everything else could be implemented in wasm, and loaded from the cloud as needed.
So now a huge swaths of use cases are going to be killed by this change. E.g. AdBlock, NewPipe and yt-dlp - how is that better? All of them (expect maybe AdBlock) rely on parsing incoming JS from YouTube which will be rendered obsolete by WebAssembly blob.
So now a huge swaths of use cases are going to be killed by this change. E.g. AdBlock, NewPipe and yt-dlp - how is that better? All of them (expect maybe AdBlock) rely on parsing incoming JS from YouTube which will be rendered obsolete by WebAssembly blob.