There are a few things already here or “coming soon” that will 100% let you leapfrog JS. WASM still has no concept of garbage collection which means that by de

There are a few things already here or “coming soon” that will 100% let you leapfrog JS. WASM still has no concept of garbage collection which means that by default it’s limited to a smallish number of languages that are viable. That’s changing in the not too distant future it seems as the plans for garbage collection are well underway already. It also has no ability to do DOM manipulation meaning you end up in a scenario like the one in the article where “algorithms” end up in wasm and the UI in web components / JS. I believe that too is going to change at some point. As for where things stand RIGHT now in 2021 if you want to skip JS I would say it probably depends a lot on what you want to build. I think for a lot of B2B enterprisey apps that mostly run on Desktop devices Flutter is already a viable option there and generally a much nicer experience. The performance / accessibility right now isn’t at a level where it would make sense for a bunch of other options but as I mentioned elsewhere in this thread it is barely out of beta by a couple of months. It’s improving a lot at a pretty rapid pace and is built upon solid tech choices and open standards. I think it has a decent future ahead of it.