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hutzlibu on May 24, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: DeviceScript: TypeScript for Tiny IoT Devices

"WASM IS compiled code"

Yes, but to a VM, so the same code can run wherever there is a wasm runtime (number is growing).

dmitrygr on May 24, 2023 [–]

But you can compile that very same code to a much larger number of architectures. Using gcc

stagas on May 25, 2023 | [–]

It's not the same because with Wasm you only need to distribute a single binary to support all current and future platforms.

dmitrygr on May 25, 2023 | | [–]

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