[weberc2]

WASM isn’t very practical yet because it isn’t fully formed. There isn’t support for DOM access or parallelism, never mind the ecosystem. It’s a really ambitious project, and writing it off as “locus of JS hate” because it hasn’t completely changed the game in such a short time frame is really short sighted. It would be a fairer test to give it 5 years.

[pteredactyl]

I'm not writing it off. I think it's a good idea to bring more options to the web. I tried it last year, but as you state and I agree, it's not ready yet.

In my experience in SF I encounter many never-JSers. Being a JS fan, for certain things, I don't get the hate. So maybe I feel threatened in a way, but I'm not going around wishing for the death of python or Haskell. That's all. I am reading random internet commenters and getting slightly upset. That's on me.

[weberc2]

I think you get that with any language. People are very attached to how they’ve learned to solve problems and the set of tradeoffs they tend to value. I like Go and I can’t tell you how often I see even outlandish criticism (for a long time on r/programming, commenting “it is impossible to build a software product in Go because the type system is too weak” was a great way to get upvotes, especially if you followed it with “but I really like <fully dynamic language>”). You just have to try to understand which parts of the criticism are valid and improve your own understanding.