[6gvONxR4sf7o]

Meanwhile here I am running around with js off by default. Most of the internet still works. More sites work better with js off than work worse. I hope webassembly doesn't change that into a world where the "js off" analogy is "running my OS without the ability to execute programs."

[adev_]

> Meanwhile here I am running around with js off by default. Most of the internet still works.

Just wait 5 more years that 80% of the web switch to React / Vue / TheNewHypeSPAFramework and with or without WASM, you will be unable to browse "js off".

The blame here is not on WASM but on the abuse of client side rendering and "everything as an App" when most page are just barely interactive documents.

The Web succeeded where Flash / ActiveX / JavaApplet / Sliverlight failed because:

- it was open

- it was document oriented.

And that we tend to forget a bit too easily about it.

[techntoke]

But now companies are paying more to push their WASM good message. Many of them actually believe it now, because they can't comprehend anything different.