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        Incredibly powerful type system λλλ

        And the best part, those two interop better than in native code.

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            The wasm ABI allows for a bit more flexibility than the C one.

            I’m not sure how much impact it has on practice (probably very little, otherwise somebody would have fixed it), but in native code there’s a lot of potential for mismatching behaviors from the two different runtimes.

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      You can even compile Fortran code to wasm and run it on a web browser. Who need Javascript’s puny 64bit floating point precision when you can have Fortran’s superior 128bit floating point precision?

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        No, but GUI frameworks can generate it for you. Same goes for DOM access, for which there’s normally only a JavaScript API.

        So, you’ll likely want to read JS, when researching what events or properties you can read/write for certain HTML nodes in the DOM, but with a mature GUI framework, you should not need to write any JS.