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by couchand 3280 days ago
I'm excited but I'm also cautious. I'm not sure that WASM has a slam dunk story in terms of many web-native concepts, for instance asynchronous execution. The browser APIs will likely lag far behind JS, and DOM integration is just one thing there - also fetch, indexeddb/localstorage, and so forth. WASM gives us some additional tools for the web toolbelt, but it will be a long, long time before it's mature enough to completely replace JS.

That being said, I hope I'm proven wrong.