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Currently the WASM interface is a bit of a hodgepodge, and was just something to get things up and running. wasm_bindgen doesn't support generics (lifetime- or type- parameters), so we need to come up with a way to present the API fairly cleanly.

We currently use ApexCharts for charting. However, it bloats the download size significantly, and becomes rather slow generating charts with lots of bars.

A suitable replacement must:

• Support grouped bar charts (for attacker vs defender comparison)
• Support line charts (for probability graphing)
• Support export to an SVG file in some manner (save-as within the browser is ok)
• Good performance with several hundred data points
• Small size

Since we're just representing probabilities between 0 and 1 inclusive, we don't need a lot of the features of floating point numbers. We don't need to worry about numbers greater than 1 or less than 0. Additionally, very small probabilities would be pruned out in most instances anyway. The U1F63 type from fixed seems to fit this use case very well.
Potential benefits include better performance (since we're dealing with integers) and arguably better precision.

More Rulesets help to prove the robustness and flexibility of the design. We need to identify a variety of new rulesets to add, ideally both ones that are similar to A&A 1942 2E, and ones that are very different.
Axis & Allies Toolkit supports 1940 Global 2E and 1941 as well, so we can probably support those fairly easily as well.

The UI is a bit utilitarian and kinda spews the data at the user.

• Stylize the header, maybe add some help text and usage information.
• Force setup needs to be more mobile-friendly.
• Clean up the round chart, maybe separate into different different charts.
• Hide raw data by default, try to make it more mobile friendly as well.