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TypeScript has previously been recommended, so I will take a look. I assume web assembly will bring sanity to the frontend PL world, which will be a step forwa

• fulafel 9y ago
  WebAssembly is not an attractive compile target for general web apps in the foreseeable future, it's going to remain a C/Rust thing unless it changes dramatically. JS is a vastly more attractive compile target for managed, GC'd languages.
  • naasking 9y ago
    > WebAssembly is not an attractive compile target for general web apps in the foreseeable future, it's going to remain a C/Rust thing unless it changes dramatically. How come?
    • machiaweliczny 9y ago
      It's too simple to support dynamic language features AFAIK.
      • naasking 9y ago
        So are machine instructions. It wouldn't be any harder to build a dynamic language runtime on web assembly than for regular assembly.