[nyberg]

It feels like most of the SPAs should really just be desktop applications and hopefully with wasm, wgpu, and wasi that can be reduced to a smaller runtime than the current v8 for everything solution. They're not really web pages anyway and trying to get them to convert to static documents doesn't seem like it will go so well considering the "interactive experiences" they provide (using the browser as a cheap GUI framework).

Would possibly be nicer to ship for the new "java platform" that wasm is slowly recreating even for software that's not currently written as web apps.

[gherkinnn]

I understand the sentiment. And by all means use WASM for the heavy lifting. But leave the UI to HTML and CSS. It's pretty good.

Every attempt at running a canvas-driven UI I've seen are dreadful. Flutter, probably the most prominent example, can't even get scrolling right. And then crashes on Safari [0]. This is only scrolling. There's so much else.

0 - https://gallery.flutter.dev/#/