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by cosmic_cheese 337 days ago
I’ve been saying for a while now that browsers need something closer to a proper UI toolkit, or at minimum “batteries included” primitives built in for ages now. It’d be a much-needed paving of a desire path that’s been so heavily trodden it’s become a canyon.

The WASM approach holds promise too and is interesting to me for opening up support for non-JS languages, but a built in UI toolkit would bring the advantage of not needing a compiler or toolchain (just like the traditional web) which can be advantageous and lowers the bar for entry.