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by infamia 86 days ago
The web is the only major platform that has a language monoculture to its detriment (i.e., not all problems are Javascript shaped). IMO the web ought to become multilingual (and become JS optional_ to further ensure its continued longevity and agility. Hopefully one day browser vendors will offer multiple runtime downloads (or something similar capability).
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wiseowise 86 days ago
> i.e., not all problems are Javascript shaped

I’m having trouble coming up with a single Python-shaped problem that can’t be contained within JavaScript-shaped ecosystem.

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tracker1 85 days ago
WASM already offers this, for better or worse... There should be improved interop APIs for DOM access, but WASM is already very useful and even for directed UI control, "fast enough" a lot of the time. Dioxus, Yew and Leptos are already showing a lot of this to be good enough. That said, I would like to see a richer component ecosystem.
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pjmlp 85 days ago
Embedded systems, consoles and mobile phones come to mind as well.

Even if you can go outside the blessed languages, it isn't without pain and scars.

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infamia 85 days ago
All the embedded systems I've worked in have many languages you can use to compile whatever, burn, and run whatever you like. Consoles run game engines and programs written in all sorts of different languages. They don't care as long as they can execute the binary. Phones can run apps using many different languages (C, C++, Rust, Python, etc.).
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pjmlp 85 days ago
Failed to read my second sentence.
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