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This is it. This is the beginning of a revolution. Prepare your fork-picks. Jokes aside, JS ecosystem really needs a competitor. Web developers have been cutti
by wheelerof4te 5y ago
This is it. This is the beginning of a revolution. Prepare your fork-picks.
Jokes aside, JS ecosystem really needs a competitor. Web developers have been cutting corner after corner for decades, with ever increasing disregard for performance and memory consumption.
Now with both Python and Rust in the browser, things may change for the better.
- kello 5y agoI really want you to be right, but what incentives does your run-of-the-miil web dev hav for switching to WASM + (pick language here)?
- wheelerof4te 5y agoClassic web-dev people have little incentive. All others have lots. That's the point.
- paavohtl 5y agoCPython is orders of magnitude slower than modern JavaScript engines. Especially so when the interpreter is compiled into WASM. It is interesting from an interoperability point of view, but this purely negative from a performance and maintainability point of view.
- bredren 5y agoI’ve been primarily a Python web dev, focused on Django. But in picking up modern frontend, even in the past two years, the frameworks and toolchains have matured or simplified a great deal. The training options are plentiful. To some extent, Node has Deno “competing” to add features and provide performant backend. Esbuild, for example, is built on rust and unlocked massive performance improvements in bundling. It seems like JS is in a better position than it has ever been.