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		naillo on Jan 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Vim online editor using WebAssembly, stor... Really cool! Excuse me for my naivete but is there a benefit to writing normal JS but then compiling it to wasm? Does that make it faster? Was kinda expecting C or some other language when viewing through the source on github.

brrrrrm on Jan 5, 2023 [–]

I believe the vim.wasm is pre-compiled and checked in as a "binary." The javascript written is a runtime wrapper

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