Actually it wouldn’t matter whether people used x86 or armv7 if people stopped distributing target-compiled binaries and supported distributing webassembly modules instead. this would also solve different issues, like code transparency (webassembly can be “un-compiled” to a certain extent), portability, and interlinking.
Let me explain the last point (interlinking):
if you have a good library written in languageX and you want to use it in programming languageY, that’s a problem. (for example java library in python). such a thing is often not possible. WebAssembly, however, makes this possible. You can write a library in one language, compile it to webassembly, and then use it in another language. i think that’s a good thing and reduced software redundancy (no need to re-write the same library code for every language.)
Actually it wouldn’t matter whether people used x86 or armv7 if people stopped distributing target-compiled binaries and supported distributing webassembly modules instead. this would also solve different issues, like code transparency (webassembly can be “un-compiled” to a certain extent), portability, and interlinking.
Let me explain the last point (interlinking):
if you have a good library written in languageX and you want to use it in programming languageY, that’s a problem. (for example java library in python). such a thing is often not possible. WebAssembly, however, makes this possible. You can write a library in one language, compile it to webassembly, and then use it in another language. i think that’s a good thing and reduced software redundancy (no need to re-write the same library code for every language.)