[giancarlostoro]

Say what you will, we need these kind of projects in order to push forward WebAssembly (and eventually JavaScript may not be the only dominant language for front-end web development). I'm curious how much of the canvas they're taking advantage of if any of it. It's quite exciting. I might wind up porting one of my existing Qt applications just to try this out and see what that would be like.

[k__]

Wasn't it more like: most people know JS so everything (server, mobile/desktpp apps, etc) was made with it.

And not like: JS is so shitty, better we make everything with it, even if there are better alternatives.

?

[Xuper]

It was the latter I am afraid. Then the general hype started and now we have insanity like Electron etc. Don't worry web assembly is here to help JS, not to replace it ;-).

[giancarlostoro]

I wouldn't be surprised to see WebAssembly only applications once WebAssembly matures and can "stand on it's own free" honestly. JavaScript for sure will hold dominance for many, many years however.

[yoz-y]

WebAssembly can not manipulate the DOM though no? Web applications got popular also because creating UIs with HTML and CSS is easy.

[k__]

It probably will be able to do this in the future.