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What about a WASM powered UI kit? Wouldn't that finally fix the cross language issue?

• saagarjha 8y ago
  Not really, no. It's very difficult to bridge different platform UI paradigms with just a language layer.
• hardwaresofton 8y ago
  If you're looking for a wasm-enabled toolchain that runs native apps in a similar way you should check out nativescript[0], I don't think they support it yet (?) but that's definitely where it would land first. Another example of where they follow standards/stick to browser specs is their use of web workers for background tasks [1]. In comparison Flutter uses dart isolates[2] which makes sense of course, since they use Dart -- similar performance models (do hard stuff in another thread). [0]: https://www.nativescript.org/ https://www.nativescript.org/ [1]: https://www.nativescript.org/blog/using-workers-in-nativescript-to-execute-javascript-on-background-threads https://www.nativescript.org/blog/using-workers-in-nativescr... [2]: https://api.dartlang.org/stable/2.0.0/dart-isolate/Isolate-class.html https://api.dartlang.org/stable/2.0.0/dart-isolate/Isolate-c...