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I'm having a hard time following your example. Relating it back to traditional web dev, it sounds like you've experienced developers leaving your team, taking

I'm having a hard time following your example. Relating it back to traditional web dev, it sounds like you've experienced developers leaving your team, taking the original JS/Coffeescript/whatever source with them and leaving you with the Closure Compiler minified JS to move forward with the project. Is that something that actually happens? That sounds like grounds for an IP lawsuit. Because that's equivalent to what you are describing in your WASM hangover example.

dccoolgai 10y ago
Sometimes you don't even want the Coffeescript after you look at it... sometimes it's a friend of a friend and it should be a lawsuit, but they don't have the money or time and they just need someone to unscrew their situation as best and quickly as possible. If nothing like that ever happened to you... well I hope it never does, friend.
- coldtea 10y ago
  Yeah, and sometimes a dog eats your homework. Back on earth though, all those things don't make sense, and are so rare as to be statistically insignificant. In any case, not a valid argument to make against a new language/delivery format, any more than "what if someone drops it off some building and kills passers by" is an argument against pianos. >If nothing like that ever happened to you... well I hope it never does, friend. And if something like that ever happened to you, then maybe consider it an outlier experience, and don't extrapolate on that? It's like an airplane accident survivor going on about how flights should be banned.