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This is really slick. Clang took about 20 secs to load on my quad core MBPro. How does this change web development ? Do we need an Ecmascript equivalent for C++ ?

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>Ecmascript equivalent for C++

W-what?

Sorry, for sounding this stupid. Does this imply you can now do web programming with C++ instead of Javascript.

Yes. You can build WebAssembly bytecode from C++ and it will run in the browser like JavaScript.

Thank you. In that case is it possible to access DOM elements within a C++ program the way we do in Javascript.

Not yet, but AFAIK it will eventually.

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