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Gary Bernhardt was prophetic https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-d

Gary Bernhardt was prophetic https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

esperent 6y ago
Wasm is amazing, but it's not intended to replace JavaScript. If you just want to add a form to a website, animate a drop-down menu, or the like, JS (or TS) will probably always be preferable to writing in another language and compiling to wasm. The web platform moves fast and maybe in a couple of years I'll eat these words. But nothing I've seen so far points towards the demise of JS.
- pjmlp 6y ago
  A form like these? https://www.qt.io/web-assembly-example-pizza-shop?hsCtaTracking=e97265b8-ec7f-4652-b052-d26b8875166d%7Ce09e2ec9-4b23-4528-8d66-448a523b7e64 https://www.qt.io/web-assembly-example-pizza-shop?hsCtaTrack... https://gallery.flutter.dev/#/ https://gallery.flutter.dev/#/ https://platform.uno/code-samples/ https://platform.uno/code-samples/
- ronjouch 6y ago
  Gary's talk is not exactly about the "demise of JS". Watch the talk, it's a great one :)
kevingadd 6y ago
WASM will never replace JavaScript. Something else might, and it might have support for compiling to WASM, but we'll see.