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by pjmlp 252 days ago
All great and dandy, except tooling still sucks.

You still need to usually install plenty of moving pieces to produce a wasm file out of the "place language here", write boilerplate initialisation code, debugging is miserable, only for a few folks to avoid writing JavaScript.

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I think you may be underestimating how many people really dislike JavaScript.
As many that dislike PHP, C, C++, yet here we are.
There will always be enthusiasts to take the initial steps, the question is if they have the taste to make it a coherent system that isn't horrible to use.

Counted out over N languages, we should see something decent land before long.