One advantage over using fetch is that the WebAssembly approach seems to bypass CORS
> If you inspect the devtools network tab of your browser, you see that everything happens over a single WebSocket to wss://ws.r-universe.dev. The browser is not making the HTTP requests, in fact this would not even be possible because we download the files from a host that does not enable CORS.
I think that part of the issue is the split between CDNA for data centers [1] and RDNA for consumer products [2] with AMD only having the money to focus on the bigger data center market. There are rumors that both architectures will be merged into UDNA in the future, which will hopefully improve ROCm support, but for now it's lacking
> If you inspect the devtools network tab of your browser, you see that everything happens over a single WebSocket to wss://ws.r-universe.dev. The browser is not making the HTTP requests, in fact this would not even be possible because we download the files from a host that does not enable CORS.