By the way, Node does have fetch support these days, which I'd actually missed, but it's still missing "file:" fetch. As mentioned in the video, Bun and Deno do both work out of the box on the demo as presented, including automatic support for both ES modules & TypeScript.
Almost the same situation in C/C++: you either use Emscripten which does most of the job for you OR you do it manually with Clang (which doesn't port the standard library so if you want to use std::vector, std::map etc. you gotta write them yourself). It would be nice to see a video about that too.
Also, plain old rust compiling to wasm gets std Vec and most things. It's just the interop part that's awkward without extra tooling, at least for what I've seen so far. So that's also a difference.
wasi-sdk provides a mostly exhaustive implementation of the C and C++ standard libraries without Emscripten, and works in-browser if you don't depend on platform features like file I/O.
Webgpu requires lots of manual and fiddly effort. New Taca plans give less control for a much easier time. And my new js implementation is directly on webgl2. But I'm currently still working on getting wgpu working for the native version.
Seems WASM is coming back into general conversation again. Feels like it has been quiet since the announcement of WASM garbage collection. Maybe I stopped paying attention?
