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Can't speak on the learning resource. I'm not even sure there would be any meaningful resources given the scope of WebAssembly is still entirely niche anyway.
by cthuluincognito 7y ago
Can't speak on the learning resource. I'm not even sure there would be any meaningful resources given the scope of WebAssembly is still entirely niche anyway.
From my (biased) perspective, one of the greatest potentials is for new languages with improved features, syntax, and semantics. These languages can be just as effective as javascript performance-wise to accomplish the same goals, without having to transpile to javascript, which comes with its own real costs. The interest is there, given the 100+ languages that came out as a 'replacement' for JavaScript since its inception. We'll see if language theory can usher in a better language for the web built on WebAssembly.
The other great boon is simply having more performant services or utilities that can be written in any language. If you like C syntax for doing everything non-ui then you can go ahead and write C no problem, and run it on the client's machine. Maybe we'll even get to run fully concurrent client side apps, at which point Java would be a wonderful language to jump into those capabilities, given they have a robust handle on it from a language standpoint.