Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code
I never expected WebAssembly to be as fast as native only to be significantly faster than JavaScript.<p>Considering the popularity of Electron, if WebAssembly does get as fast as native or at least 80% there (and that's a really big if) it would easily become the cross platform language for the vast majority of desktop applications.<p>For mobile we will always be dragged down by Apple and its reticence to embrace web technologies. It's 2019 and we can't even show a add to home screen native banner.