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Back in the day you would have used .NET plugin for browsers, which got replaced by Silverlight plugin, nowadays it is WebAssembly, really nothing new per se.

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Except that it's implemented in all browsers with nothing extra to install.

All third party browser plugins failed eventually.

And now we have all plugins back, that is the only utility for WebAssembly, doing two level translation of bytecodes.

WebAssembly is no more a plugin than JavaScript is.

Indeed, but it allows us to have our plugins back, and that is the only thing I care about.

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https://opensilver.net/

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