[mdhb]

The entire point here is that this is changing.

Granted to various degrees. Running Python, Ruby or PHP in the browser requires shipping a interpreter compiled to WASM and is indeed a lot of overhead, however compare and contrast that with say C, Rust, Dart, C++, Kotlin or C# which all have dedicated WASM compilation story’s which ship native WebAssembly bytecode without the interpreter overhead.

For a lot of those languages they are on an equal footing to JS in every non DOM manipulation context and only getting better overtime as more and more WASM proposals start to move through the standardisation process unlocking better performance and capabilities.

I think in that particular light, it’s very hard to see JS holding the same privileged position on the web it traditionally has. A new generation of languages are emerging which are much much nicer to work with.

[wiseowise]

> C, C++, Kotlin

> much nicer to work with than JavaScript

Glorified assembly, if war crime was a language and a marketing tool to promote JetBrains IDEs that barely works outside of JVM. Truly nice way to work!

[mdhb]

Wtaf are you talking about?

[genewitch]

My read is those languages share features with perl

"Line noise programming languages"