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> I would love to do frontend web development but the current high-churn Javascript ecosystem makes me dizzy; this is probably a naive question but will it be p
by nostalgeek 8y ago
> I would love to do frontend web development but the current high-churn Javascript ecosystem makes me dizzy; this is probably a naive question but will it be possible to do web-development without integrating in the Javascript ecosystem using WebAssembly and Rust someday?
there are 2 different things, there is the DOM/Web API and the language, Javascript.
Nobody forces you to use anything from the JavaScript ecosystem, not even node.js, in order to use the DOM. This complexity is totally unnecessary.
I personally settled on Typescript, nothing more. Its compiler gives me Javascript WITH static typing, and converts my code to a version of JavaScript that will run on the majority of the browsers, even internet explorer 8/9 or old Android browsers. No need for React,Angular, Webpack, Babel and all that stuff...
As I'm not writing games or photoshop in the browser I see no need to use Rust,C,C++ and the SDL just to write web apps.
IMHO some people ultimately miss the true usefulness and use case for WASM: making existing C,C++,... libraries available to Javascript developers, not replacing JS with language X or Z.
- steveklabnik 8y agoWe agree that that use-case is useful, and that’s exactly why we’re focusing on it. Augment, not replace.
- anderspitman 8y agoI'm excited at the prospect of compiling TypeScript directly to wasm in the future (see for example [0]). Someday you may be able to recompile that TS project and get substantial gains for free. [0] https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript