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How Google Sheets Uses WasmGC with Michael Thomas and Thomas Steiner

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Embrace Multi-Platform Evolution with WebAssembly

The future of WebAssembly will likely involve the development of toolkits and frameworks that support building larger applications across various languages, breaking away from reliance solely on JavaScript. This shift allows different programming languages to better address specific web use cases. Additionally, WebAssembly enables multi-platform deployment, enhancing performance beyond that of JavaScript, which presents challenges when transitioning existing applications. Migrating from JavaScript to WebAssembly requires significant effort, as it involves rewriting code in another language to compile efficiently to WebAssembly, thus complicating the process for existing JavaScript applications.

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