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by themihai 3394 days ago
The JS devs don't really need wasm. JS works just fine in browser. I find the use cases mentioned (js app + high performance wasm modules) limited to a very small niche. WASM is supposed to be a target language. Are they trying to convert current web devs to C++/rust devs? It doesn't make any sense to me. If wasm was designed just to help JS to do more then it is doomed to fail.
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aphextron 3394 days ago
>JS works just fine in browser.

Sure it does. And the myriad of languages that pop up to support WASM will work infinitely better. ES6 was a huge step forward, but it's still a long way from a real language like C#.

I suspect Javascript development will always be a thing, but that front end development will fracture into multiple different languages and runtimes as full WASM support comes online.

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joshuahutt 3394 days ago
> a real language like C#

While I can agree that C# has tons of language features that make it more powerful than JavaScript, I take issue with the idea that those features are the defining characteristic of a "real" language. I think there are many reasons to choose C# over JS, but there are also a non-trivial of reasons to make the opposite choice.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/

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