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by amoe_ 2130 days ago
I'll believe that CSS+HTML is the "assembly of the web" once I have to touch them as little as I have to touch the output of my C++ compiler or Java bytecode. Right now, any web developer has to be very comfortable with debugging HTML and CSS issues, whereas it's entirely possible for a competent Java developer to know literally zero about bytecode.
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type0 2130 days ago
That argument falls because it was never designed that way. If you want broad browser support and careful testing of edge cases you can't threat it that way, even with WASM you likely won't escape it.
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chii 2130 days ago
a proper C++ or java dev will examine the byte code if stuff is broken (if required), just the same as they would when writing react apps. You wouldn't normally need to examine the output the html or css when you use a framework as high level as react (or really, most web component frameworks).
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