[zoom6628]

Too little too late.

My bet is WASM being the Great Leap Forward because everything else that has been done in JavaScript is just layer on layer of abstraction, obfuscation and horrendous complexity.

I would rather develop in a mature language and have that transpiled to WASM rather than fight the frameworks (I still remember when Angula 5 was a 15,000 file desktop mom install !).

JavaScript has fulfilled an important role as the COBOL of the web. Low barrier to entry - anybody can do something useful without education or expense.

Now the web needs move forward to become the first choice desktop. That will take tools that can really do the whole stack, like C, Go, Java, Zig, Virgil productively.

Industry has been busy on the JS bandwagon and adding vast amounts of complexity to browsers and web infrastructure when maybe (happy for opinions to be voiced on this) we should be just adding more language runtimes to browsers.

[styren]

How would WASM alleviate any of the issues that has led to complex frameworks in JS-land?