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Heh, maybe JS becomes finally usable just before WebAssembly takes off, rendering it obsolete :-D
by bitL 9y ago
Heh, maybe JS becomes finally usable just before WebAssembly takes off, rendering it obsolete :-D
- drew-y 9y agoJS won't be entirely obsolete. You won't be able to access the DOM from WebAssembly. It will be way easier to make way more performant web apps though.
- goatlover 9y agoDOM access is coming to WebAssembly after GC is supported. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/Web.md https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/Web.md
- AprilArcus 9y agooh, is that all!
- komali2 9y agoWherein a Hackernews suggests an unknown, unpopular technology will replace a known, popular one in short order.
- bitL 9y agoCome on, many people are looking down at JavaScript for a reason - if the new standard allows proper multithreading, it suddenly gets closer to "usable" language as defined by many. But if they had a choice of another language running on top of Web Assembly (or whatever you name the web's VM), I am not sure they would even consider learning JS despite it being finally on par with their favorite language.