Great article. I applaud the massive amount of effort that's resulted in JS being far faster than anyone ever expected. It's time to switch to WASM though. Hal

Great article. I applaud the massive amount of effort that's resulted in JS being far faster than anyone ever expected. It's time to switch to WASM though. Half native speed with almost no parsing overhead. As integration and tooling improve I see no reason to stick with JS. It also rectifies a number of historical mistakes that are nearly impossible to fix. Mainly threading. WebWorkers etc are a huge hack. No atomic data structures, no shared memory, huge overhead. WASM will be many times faster than JS from threads alone. Add the natural speed advantage and you're looking at maybe a 20x performance difference.