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		1ris on Dec 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Compiling to WebAssembly: It’s Happening It's the current fad. But nothing new. Since the beginning of computing the tides go from thin-clients and fat-clients back and forth. Currently fat-clients are en-vouge.

sangnoir on Dec 17, 2015 | [–]

And here I was thinking (mobile) apps were the current fad.

TeMPOraL on Dec 18, 2015 | [–]

Are they? The current trend is to have everything done server-side, thus making sure the users get minimum value possible out of software they use.

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