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by bitL 3263 days ago
Heh, maybe JS becomes finally usable just before WebAssembly takes off, rendering it obsolete :-D
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komali2 3263 days ago
Wherein a Hackernews suggests an unknown, unpopular technology will replace a known, popular one in short order.
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bitL 3263 days ago
Come on, many people are looking down at JavaScript for a reason - if the new standard allows proper multithreading, it suddenly gets closer to "usable" language as defined by many. But if they had a choice of another language running on top of Web Assembly (or whatever you name the web's VM), I am not sure they would even consider learning JS despite it being finally on par with their favorite language.
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drew-y 3263 days ago
JS won't be entirely obsolete. You won't be able to access the DOM from WebAssembly. It will be way easier to make way more performant web apps though.
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goatlover 3263 days ago
DOM access is coming to WebAssembly after GC is supported.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/Web.md

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AprilArcus 3263 days ago
oh, is that all!
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