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by petre 3393 days ago
I don't hate JS but would rather write my web codebase in something else, something that has a standard lib for instance. ES6 is also a transpile to JS language on the browser. The main problem is that we are stuck with ancient JS on the browser and WASM could fix that. Wouldn't you rather conpile ES6 to WASM instead of JS?
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ZenPsycho 3393 days ago
browsers that support WASM will support ES6 natively. compiling ES6 to WASM would not be a good idea, since you would have to send a garbage collector and full dynamic language runtime down the pipe instead of just using the one in the browser.

wouldn't you rather just run ES6 right in the browser instead of compiling it first at all?

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petre 3392 days ago
If all major browsers support 100% of the spec and every implementation is bug to bug compatible with the others, yes, I would rather run ES6 directly in the browser. The problem is fragmentation and not supporting the whole spec -- some functions working in Firefox and Chrome and not implemented in IE/Edge or Safari.
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Klathmon 3392 days ago
Has any runtime anywhere had 100% compatibility with anything ever?
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