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Thanks for asking for those clarifications,

I don't expect any of the UI work will ever be done in WASM (because it doesn't need to be shared with the embedded side of things). It is more porting standalone libraries that would be useful for both like file parsing and networking libraries. (In particular, the library I ported was a file parser).



In that case, yeah, it will work. You just have to realize that WASM has a REALLY tight sandbox around it, so getting a file/network stream into it will be somewhat of a pain.

WASM works best in cases of strict CPU and limited GPU processing (through webgl).




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